1 The catch? Apple doesn’t offer the new “top-of-the-line”, “fastest-ever” MacBook Pro with anything more than 16GB of RAM!Īt a time when 32GB of DDR4 SODIMM laptop memory – running at 2400MHz, or 34% faster than the MacBook Pro’s paltry 2133MHz – costs only $160 at retail, when you’re paying over $3,000 for a machine with yesteryear’s components, and for a product that should be (but clearly isn’t) a computer computing-device (?) manufacturer’s flagship, 2 Apple could easily have offered the option to at least pay for an upgrade to 32GB, let alone 64GB. These top-of-the-line Skylake CPUs (as Intel’s 6th-generation of Core Technology CPUs is known as) support up to 64GB of memory - which isn’t as much as it once used to be, at a time when each tab in your browser runs in its own process and takes up its own (not insignificant) chunk of memory. Despite being CPUs that were released almost a year-and-a-half ago, they are still much-needed upgrades from the previous, decrepit processors that were powering the MacBook Pros available for sale yesterday. The top-of-the-line 15″ MBP has only two CPU options available, the 2.7GHz Intel i7 6820HQ and the 2.9GHz i7 6920HQ. Unlike previous generations where users had some semblance of control over what parts their customized Macs shipped with, the new MBPs don’t really give the users much choice. Case in point: the newest, latest, and “greatest” MacBook Pro, available now for pre-order online. Today, it seems that Apple is officially trying to become famous for making hardware you can’t change, in configurations you don’t want, with year(s)-old tech you don’t need.

Apple is famous for making awesome hardware.

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