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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 it's extremely limited hardware specs considering who it's purportedly aimed at and an i/o 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 LAN show we actually threw our two cents into the pile every 13-inch MacBook Pro has no dedicated GPU I'm sold no one will ever need more than eight gigs of RAM they don't even have to drill course 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 LAN 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 gigabytes of RAM they claimed 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 cooller masters master case maker five features they're freeform modular system allowing you to customize adjust and upgrade make it yours at the link below 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 this 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 on to 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 it's 32 gigabytes 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 I 264 extreme for our first test we use 8 gigs 6 of Corsair Vengeance lpx ddr4 on our usual test bench in 8 16 and 32 gigabyte configurations there is a 20 watt 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 Corsair lpx against four sticks of a data xpg ddr4 since the a data sticks were only four gigs apiece both setups came in at a total of 16 gigabytes 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 Corsair LP 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 difference 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 skylake architecture CPU type and ddr4 Ram as our desktop test bench and then we paired it with crucial and a pacer so-dimms that is laptop memory obviously we would have liked to have tested this on one of the new MacBook Pros themselves but thanks to its completely non swappable Ram this wasn't really an option after testing 1 & 2 6 of both 8 and 16 gigabyte 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 gigabytes was only 105 milliwatts hours in each scenario the memory stress test drained about 4% of the Predators 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 J deck 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 gigabytes of memory wouldn't be efficient enough for a notebook Linus's theory is that using up more PCB space 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