I agree. The SSDs cost even less than the RAM for Apple to source! It makes the SSD upgrade prices even worse than the RAM upgrade prices. My relatives and I, even the elderly ones, could all benefit from 1TB, and shouldn't have to pay £400 for it. 😞
LLM or AI will not be run on RAM! Thats not how RAM works, or how Data Processing works!
News flash. You can’t compare swapable RAM prices with integrated, 'attached to chip' RAM because no one else does it. So again. You’re BS'ing about this. Asking for the price was rhetorical because I knew you couldn’t do it. Yet you managed to come up with an incomparable BS price. Good on you. There is no point continuing on talking with you when you’re just going to make stuff up for a reason I fail to see. Ciao.
Why didn't you get the 16/512?I don’t notice the weight increase much at all. But the increase in screen size is very noticeable and welcomed.
Nothing wrong with the M2 13”. Just wanted a bigger screen
The RAM chips are not integrated into the Apple SoC. They are connected via a PCB. The RAM chips are just off the shelf LPDDR5 SDRAM chips from HK Hynix and other vendors.
www.ifixit.com
That’s why I said they were 'attached' to the SoC In other posts. Probably integrated 'with' is a better description. Notwithstanding, they are not 'soldered on' the ECB as previous versions. They are attached to reduce BUS & increased bandwidth To work with the GPU etc. Something soldered (ECB) or replaceable RAM cannot do.The RAM chips are not integrated into the Apple SoC. They are connected via a PCB. The RAM chips are just off the shelf LPDDR5 SDRAM chips from HK Hynix and other vendors.
From the picture below, the top part is the SoC and the bottom are the two RAM chips. They are soldered on a single PCB.
M1 MacBook Pro and Air Teardowns
Past, meet future—it’s a mix of old and new in our dual teardown of the newest M1-powered MacBooks.
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What a thing to write! Hilarious. They don't "run" on RAM but you seem under the impression RAM isn't essential for them to run at any acceptable speed. 🤣🤣
I suspect the person you are replying to isn't being serious and is just trying to rile people up.The RAM chips are not integrated into the Apple SoC. They are connected via a PCB. The RAM chips are just off the shelf LPDDR5 SDRAM chips from HK Hynix and other vendors.
From the picture below, the top part is the SoC and the bottom are the two RAM chips. They are soldered on a single PCB.
M1 MacBook Pro and Air Teardowns
Past, meet future—it’s a mix of old and new in our dual teardown of the newest M1-powered MacBooks.
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Yes. And you seem to know all about something that is not actually a thing… yet. You do not run LLM directly on a MacBook Air, and it’s not because of the RAM. But whatever.
You clearly aren’t understanding the conversation. And you clearly don’t know how RAM is used. You think it will be the deciding factor of whether a 2024 Macbook Air will run LLM and AI 🤦🏻♂️I suspect the person you are replying to isn't being serious and is just trying to rile people up.
There was a recent article about running LLMs using the flash storage on your iPhone, which I assume could also apply to Macs and iPads.
www.macrumors.com
Interesting. ThanksThere was a recent article about running LLMs using the flash storage on your iPhone, which I assume could also apply to Macs and iPads.
Apple Develops Breakthrough Method for Running LLMs on iPhones
Apple GPT in your pocket? It could be a reality sooner than you think. Apple AI researchers say they have made a key breakthrough in deploying large...
It sounds like one way of getting around the limited ram on a device, and tracks with Apple's record of using software to optimise hardware performance, thereby allowing them to get by with using less specs and save on hardware margins.
