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alcimedes
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2014-05-01, 08:23

In theory an SSD would take less energy than RAM, since RAM has to be powered to retain the data, where as an SSD writes and it's done.

To me the big screw job in all of this is that the RAM can't be upgraded, and that is Apple's cardinal sin.

This shit might be "OK" by their standards today, but in two or three years time that 4GB of RAM is going to be rearing its head even more than today, and you CAN'T FIX IT.

That's just stupid. Ship them all with 8GB minimum, or allow people to upgrade them after the fact, but you can't say "no upgrades after you buy it" and still allow people to buy machines with anemic RAM specs.

The consumer might not know any better, but Apple should.

(to be fair I haven't tried a machine with 4GB of RAM *and* an SSD) Maybe in that combination the lack of RAM isn't nearly as noticeable, SSD's to seem to smooth over a wide variety of 'slowness' perceptions and realities with machines.

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