Wonder Why NEW MacBook Pro doesn’t get 32G Capacity?

News brought in the morning of 22nd Nov: NEW MacBook Pro officially goes on sale at present; however, it gets its capacity below the line of 16G and excludes 32G. Why? One of Apple executives gave us an explanation.

In a reply to Ben Slaney who is a developer, Phil Schiller, Apple’s senior vice president of world-wide product marketing said, New MacBook Pro of 2016 adopts 16G LPDDR high rate capacity, with CPU hits 2133MHz. If you want 32G as an option, then you need DDR4 capacity with higher Power Consumption, and the motherboard calls for a new design. It will occupy extra battery space. These two factors could shorten the battery life.

There is still one factor Schiller didn’t specifically mention, i.e. current processor couldn’t support 32G capacity and low energy consumption all at once.

After that, Slaney posted a very long discussion about capacity; he assumed the main concerning factor is still CPU + Processor. New MacBook Pro uses enhanced low battery consumption version of DDR3, named “LPDDR3E”, whose max capacity is 16GB. A 32 GB capacity requires DDR4, which brings a contradiction that Intel processor for MacBook Pro of 2016 doesn’t support LPDDR4.

Although Apple has A series self-producing processor for iPhone, as for computer processor, it still count on upstream vendors as Intel. Thinking for Apple, till now this is the best solution indeed. It is known that Intel starts new processor mass production in July, and MacBook Pro missed. If it applies DDR4, Apple is required to do motherboard redesign for a small portion of 32GB users, otherwise battery consumption is high. Better to wait for a new Intel processor. In conclusion, users in pursuit of extreme performance may wait till tomorrow, while for most users, 16GB is enough to offer a bid.

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