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1. mung · 1791166368 · focus · HN ↗

   I think the problem isn't the AI, it's the ridiculously small SSDs you can get on Apple products that make one quibble about 12GB in 2026.

   1. FlowingRiver · 1791168507 · focus · HN ↗

      It feels like so much software was just anticipating storage to keep getting cheaper and processors to keep increasing in performance forever. Now that we have hit a significant road block on that path, we are seeing the big disconnect.

      I realized that in 2005(ish) my work station was a fully decked out Dual 2Ghz G5 Powermac that had 8GB of RAM. Yes, that was OBSCENE at the time but it was being used for generating light maps on 3D scenes and we were going to use all the memory we could get and 64bit processors with their memory addressing was a nice to have. But it was 8GB, a size that is still common today.

      New laptops and even desktop still come with 8GB some 21 years later, who could have seen that coming? It would be like selling a PC in 2005 with 2MB of RAM.

      1. incognition · 1791175462 · focus · HN ↗

         yes, it's totally bizarre. And RAM used to be a commodity, well sort of prior to the past two years. It definitely didn't drive the bulk of the bill of materials, however manufacturers honed in on it as a way of segmenting the market.

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