Will 32Gb be enough by the time apple starts shipping lappies with LPDDR4?

[73CortinaV8]

16Gb became a constraint for my work last year, I had to give up doing work on my macbook. It was more than enough for almost 5 years, but not anymore. Now I primarily work on a linux desktop with my home and work mbps relegated to surfing and movie duty.

Pretty much the same for others in my office, too (much to the chagrin of management ... "we just bought you $3000 laptops, you need what?" ... heh)

Anyhoo, at least for me, I'm starting to bump up against 32gb on my desktop. about to order another 16gb dimm. We're not doing anything super exotic here, so I know we can't be the only ones. Some of this is my fault, I leave 40 browser tabs open and that can gobble up a couple gigs, but that's how I like to work. Again, I've seen worse.

I searched around and couldn't find what the max LPDDR4 supports. I've seen a few 64gb laptops (lenovo) advertised but they're not LPDDR4.

So, do you think we'll get a 48gb or 64gb option? I really do miss working on my macbook. (and nope, it will be a cold day in hell before I get another lenovo)

 

[Queen6]

Plenty more of that here...

https://forums.macrumors.com/threads/waiting-for-the-2018-mbp.2048940/

Q-6

 

[leman]

As far as RAM goes, 8GB is probably going sufficient for office stuff until at least 2020... Over the last decade we have experienced rapid growth in memory demands mainly because of high quality media resources (resolutions and bit depth/quality demands increasing) as well as more abstract programming patterns (which are more wasteful but allow rapid development of higher quality software). Right now this demand growth has significantly slowed down. In fact, because RAM/CPU tech is stagnating, there has been more interest in efficient programming (e.g. Swift is specifically designed to use less memory than Objective-C). Of course, in more special domains, RAM requirements can be much higher. Web developers for instance like to run multiple VMs/Docker. Much of statistical software is rather dumb in working with large data, requiring it to be resident in memory (usually for no good reason). And so on.

By the way, you shouldn't have any problems opening 40 or even 80 tabs in a browser, even when using an 8GB machine. Its not the data which needs to be memory resident all the time. And reloading it from disk takes faster then the browser tab switching animation. With a properly optimised browser RAM should not be an issue here, unless you are working with a single humongous website that alone needs multiple GB of memory.