#Install additional ram for mac notebook pro
Check out the video From Linus Tech Tips explaining why 16 GB is enough.įor the daily readers of SLR Lounge, you may have read my last piece on Macbook Pro alternatives. The user will see little to no performance increase between 16GB and 32GB of RAM, and with a difference at most it of 7%. What they do not realize is that there is a law of diminishing return. Most people think that either photo or video editing is a “ more” application the more you throw at it the better it goes: More RAM. It provides no performance improvement if you are not memory limited but can provide huge performance improvements if you are, to a point. If you are working on either Premiere or Final Cut Pro, 8 to 16 GB of RAM is enough (with 8GB being the recommended amount specified by Adobe), but if you are going to work in Avid Media Composer you need a minimum of 8GB of RAM and at least 24GB if working with UHD. Editing photos in Lightroom or editing video in Premiere? Depends. Only a small percentage of users actually need 16GB RAM today, with 32 GB being overkill for most.įor the average user, yes. Now I love to Apple-bash as much as the next person, but reduced battery life might not be the only reason for the 16GB limit, it may be the user base.
This is because there is no “sleep mode” for underutilized RAM, it is always on, always using power. If Apple followed suit, your new Macbook would turn into a small, underpowered iMac with an integrated UPC.Īrguments can be made that the type of power users who need 32GB RAM mostly use their Macbooks while plugged, so reduced battery life would be an acceptable trade-off, although imagine the backlash against Apple for announcing a new MacBook Pro had a battery life reduced from 10 hours to 4 hours with a 64 GB RAM option. Other laptops that offer 32GB do so by using desktop RAM (non LP), but this is achieved either by a thicker-form chassis to support the additional battery volume, or, like in the case of other lightweight notebooks, such as Dell’s XPS 15 line, a reduced battery-life. Offering a machine with a 32GB RAM option might compromise the all-important portability aspect of laptop. The new MacBook Pros get around 10-hours of battery life (for the most part). To put more than 16GB of fast RAM into a notebook design at this time would require a memory system that consumes much more power and wouldn’t be efficient enough for a notebook.
In response to the outcry, Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of worldwide marketing, briefly stated:
One argument in particular that stands out is the decision to limit the maximum RAM to 16GB, and has been the subject of huge controversy. The Macbook also followed suit with the “bold” decision to not to include any legacy USB-A ports and the inclusion of a function Bar that was a ‘Touch’ too much. Before the wounds were even healed from that debacle, Apple dropped their new Macbook Pro a decision that was not highly welcomed.
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