His latest statement really just expands upon his initial explanation, presumably in the hope that it will convince complainers that the right decision was made. He had previously said: "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". To support 32GB of memory would require using DDR memory that is not low power and also require a different design of the logic board which might reduce space for batteries. The MacBook Pro uses 16GB of very fast LPDDR memory, up to 2133MHz. But there is more to the decision, as Schiller explains: RAM with higher power consumption means shorter battery life. In general 3rd party apps are slimming faster than they are growing now as well, but with M1 and Intel, apps will be larger for a short. The new OS take less ram since Apple is dropping all the 32 bit frameworks and libraries. You’d only need 16 or more for very specific cases. Speaking to MacDaddy Apple's Phil Schiller explains that increasing the amount of supported memory would mean using RAM that consumed more power. I program in 8 GB and run light virtual machines and docker.
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