Apple's new Macbook Pro an interesting device for sure but we've seen the
criticisms that between the lack of an SD card reader its extremely limited
hardware specs considering who it's purportedly aimed at and an IO setup
that will leave the vast majority of people either reaching for adapters or
buying new cables altogether it just doesn't seem geared
towards professionals at all and on the latest WAN Show we actually threw our
two cents into the pile every 13in MacBook Pro has no dedicated GPU
I'm sold no one will ever need more than 8 gigs of RAM they don't even have dual
they don't even have quad core processors no one needs more than two
cores Apple didn't bother to respond to our comments directly I guess Tim Cook
doesn't watch the WAN Show for some reason but one issue has apparently
generated so much discussion that Apple's Phil Schiller made an official
statement to the verge defending their decision to limit the MacBook Pro to 16
GB of RAM they claim that putting more than 16 gigs 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 laptop but how much battery does
RAM use is this a valid defense let's
investigate
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Apple will have to forgive me when I immediately raised an eyebrow like
Dwayne The Rock Johnson although I can't do it nearly as well when they announced
that not only would their base configurations max out at 16 gigs but
that you wouldn't be able to upgrade it later on consumer stuff I find thisp
type of locking down less offensive but
they're doing a lot of stuff that just seems to be designed to make their
Hardware less repairable and more disposable I mean MacBook Pro batteries
are glued to the case and this situation
is no different with the memory it's soldered onto the logic board Apple's
official explanation was that a memory system with more than 16 gigs of RAM
would draw too much power from the laptop like I said earlier but is that
really true is 32 GB really too much for
a mobile platform to handle well especially considering many MacBook Pro
buyers are professional content creators or Chrome users who might actually make
use of all of that memory to find out we looked at the power consumption of
different memory configurations not just in a laptop but in a desktop as well
just to dive a little bit deeper our Benchmark on all tests was 5 minutes of
the memory stress test only in Ida 64
extreme for our first test we use 8 gig 6 of Corsair Vengeance lpx ddr4 on our
usual test bench in 816 and 32 GB
configurations there is a 20 wat Delta in our highest and lowest amounts of RAM
but was this due to more gigabytes or more RAM sticks so we put our two sticks
of corser lpx against four sticks of AD data xpg ddr4 since the a data sticks
were only 4 gigs a piece both setups
came in at a total of 6 GB of RAM the
four sticks drew a little bit more power but not much more as there was only a 5
watt difference we also looked at how different RAM voltages affected power
consumption putting up two sticks of our 1.2 volt corser lpx against two sticks
of 1.35 volt Corsair Dominator as with
our other tests we made sure to turn on XMP profiles to make sure they were
actually drawing the voltages indicated on the box the 11 watt differ was
definitely more than we were expecting all in all the differences between our
different RAM setups for desktop weren't
insignificant so is there really something to Apple's claim time to dig
deeper so we switched over to an Acer Predator 15 laptop as it uses the same
Sky likee Architecture CPU type and ddr4 RAM as our desktop test bench and then
we paired it with crucial and apacer so dims that is laptop memory obviously we
would have liked to have test tested this on one of the new Macbook Pros
themselves but thanks to its completely non-s swappable RAM this wasn't really
an option after testing one and two sticks of both 8 and 16 GB modules the
difference in battery drain was almost negligible the difference between one
stick of 8 gigs and two of 16 remember that's a total of 32 GB was only 105 M
hours in each scenario the memory stress test drained about 4% of the Predator's
battery so there was no massive spike in discharge rate when we upped our system
to 32 gigs now admittedly this isn't an
Apples to Apples comparison as all the laptops laying around were ddr4 gaming
Windows-based models but thanks to JX
standards one ddr4 low power chip is less different from another than you
might think which leaves us to wonder if raw power consumption of more chips
wasn't the issue what exactly did apple mean when they said more than 16 GB of
memory wouldn't be efficient enough for
a notebook Linus's theor is that using up more PCB space for memory chips could
have eaten into the internal space that Apple preferred to use for a bigger
battery johon thinks that's bull and speculates that it's a planned
obsolescence move as for me I'm not sure
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