If Amazon's S&H charges are any indicator, you'd probably save a bundle on shipping. Plus 1 oversized box for the single 800 million GB chip is better than the 100 million oversized boxes for the 8GB chips.
I don't think Apple's Purchasing Department has a firm grip on reality.
This happens every year. Obviously Apple is going to update the iPhone with a new 32GB model that will retail for the same price, and the 16GB will stay as the "lower end" one. Same for the iPod Touch models, which no doubt will go to 64GB in the near future.
The only question is what else does Apple have planned? Personally I predict they will release a different phone in June/Julym having the old one next to the new one. Some folks seeem to think this 2nd iPhone will be a Nanophone, but I think they're going to release one with a keyboard instead, probably at the same price as existing iPhone models, and with less memory than the keyboardless model. If I had to guess, I'd say it'll be a landscape slider, and that it will be only marginally thinner than the current iPhone.
@weatherman: why do people keep saying this? it will NEVER happen. There is 0% chance of this EVER occurring. The touchscreen is awesome, and Apple will make it better, not give up on it. What @Noobs-R-Us said.
@The Chad: they don't need to give up on the touchscreen to come out with a keyboard. They can (and should) have multiple phones to meet different markets.
As for saying that they aren't going to have a hardware keyboard, Jobs has said similar things about flash MP3 players, color screens and any number of other things that Apple has ultimately done.
Why would they release a 2nd phone that has a keyboard? First, it kills palm in utero. Second, it takes away tons of market share from RIM. Since the iPhone now works with push email and MS Exchange, there's no reason that Apple can't take over a substantial portion of the business market. And they will, if they release a phone with a keyboard. Which they will. If they do it this year, they will soar above the competition and kill several of them outright. If they do it next year, they will have a much harder time of it, but they could still pull it off.
@Mike Delozier: watch what you say all the little apple fanboyz will flame you. because apparently owning 10% of the market share on personal computes is a big deal...
I'll wait for 3rd party thank you very much, BUT actually 4GB ram on my MBP is really plenty I think, The 16GB on my Mac Pro rules! but I'm tapped, no more upgrades for a couple years, wife will shoot me with that new paralyzing shotgun thingy from yesterday's post. She's "frozen" my upgrades literally!! ;-)
not to start a flame war or anything but, to upgrade the ram on my HP would cost about $150.00. and since its Vista 64 bit version i can slap in a boatload (theoretically 10TB of ram)
now, for apple to do that it would cost a lot. (billions?)
sorry, i'm just not an Apple fan... on the plus side at least you know someone who enjoys windows on a daily basis!
I mean come on, its Mac certified RAM. You can't just be all buying parts for your computer all willy nilly. Can you imagine if you could just go to the store anytime you wanted and purchase an upgrade for your computer WITHOUT a Mac Genius to put it in for you. It was a disaster.
Thats a world I don't want to live in.
Ok, I can't continue to hold a straight face, why is apple releasing so much expensive crap in this economy.
@CopyPaste: I can't imagine that the budget-conscious would even consider buying 8GB of RAM for their laptop. Just the same, why is any car company selling premium cars in this country. Ferrari dealerships are still chugging along.
2GB of RAM will be more than enough for most users, at the moment.
Just as a reference, Dell charges $800 for a bump to 8GB on XPS 13s and Latitudes. Starting from 4GB.
It looks like the 15" MacBook pros @ 2.66Ghz start at 4GB also, but I'm on the apple store right now and for the life of me I can't find a memory option for that computer...
@Kaiser-Machead: Actually (and I know this since I researched it and found a pain that goes deep into my soul called the "MS Design Team"), the proprietary nature goes even deeper than just a case. They specifically leave dead sectors on a specific brand of HDD with special coding that the XBox can read to delineate whether or not it's a proprietary drive or not. So it won't just work with ANY drive (unlike the PS3). Sorry KM, just didn't want to spread any faulty information about that. How I wish your scenario was so...
Well Apple is also making the lofty claim that OS X 10.6 will be able to support massive amounts of RAM, theoretically, at 16 terabytes. I can't wait to see how much they charge for THAT!
@Kaiser-Machead: I had a look on the Crucial store; at current prices with 2GB sticks (which seemed to be the best way of doing it), it'd be about $500,000. You'd need to mod your Mac to give it an extra 7,998 RAM slots, though.
(these figures may be totally wrong. I didn't invest a lot of time in them. If they are awry, I'm sure some kind soul will calmly and courteously let me know...)
@Samu Wade: Here I'll be playing the role of the typical Gizmodo poster replying to Samu Wade's comment.
::clears throat::
NO! You fucking moron! You don't need the ";" you could just use "and" you IDIOT! I hate you and I have nothing better to do with my time other than to correct grammar and spelling as it fills the empty void in my life that my parents took away when they abandoned me! Though I am justified in my anger because you are wrong!
Also, it should be 8,000 RAM slots YOU INCOMPETENT FOOL! ARHGHASDOGJHASEG:L#JKHT:ALEKHt! I AM GIZ POSTER!
::clears throat::
Eh hem. Excuse me. The ";" may be right, and the 7,998, but I couldn't find anything wrong with your post so I had to make it up in order to do a proper rendition of "Le Giz Poster". Thank you.
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04/09/09
If Amazon's S&H charges are any indicator, you'd probably save a bundle on shipping. Plus 1 oversized box for the single 800 million GB chip is better than the 100 million oversized boxes for the 8GB chips.
I don't think Apple's Purchasing Department has a firm grip on reality.
04/09/09
The only question is what else does Apple have planned? Personally I predict they will release a different phone in June/Julym having the old one next to the new one. Some folks seeem to think this 2nd iPhone will be a Nanophone, but I think they're going to release one with a keyboard instead, probably at the same price as existing iPhone models, and with less memory than the keyboardless model. If I had to guess, I'd say it'll be a landscape slider, and that it will be only marginally thinner than the current iPhone.
04/09/09
04/09/09
As for saying that they aren't going to have a hardware keyboard, Jobs has said similar things about flash MP3 players, color screens and any number of other things that Apple has ultimately done.
Why would they release a 2nd phone that has a keyboard? First, it kills palm in utero. Second, it takes away tons of market share from RIM. Since the iPhone now works with push email and MS Exchange, there's no reason that Apple can't take over a substantial portion of the business market. And they will, if they release a phone with a keyboard. Which they will. If they do it this year, they will soar above the competition and kill several of them outright. If they do it next year, they will have a much harder time of it, but they could still pull it off.
03/26/09
This is why Apple is such a crap company.. just bending people over and raping them for the price of RAM.
Plus all the fan boys will pay it cause they think it has Steve Jobs love paint spewed all over the insides.
I have 8gb in my computer now and it cost me less than a $50 (after rebates)... love live the economical and practical PC. :)
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THATS RIGHT, I'M RICH BITCH!
Seriously though, prease say we can get 8gb in the Unibody mbp.
Not that I need it for pr0n surfing.
03/26/09
now, for apple to do that it would cost a lot. (billions?)
sorry, i'm just not an Apple fan... on the plus side at least you know someone who enjoys windows on a daily basis!
03/26/09
03/26/09
oh and vista....... hahhahahahahaha
03/26/09
03/26/09
check it... OH NOES ITS A LINK TO HP!!
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I mean come on, its Mac certified RAM. You can't just be all buying parts for your computer all willy nilly. Can you imagine if you could just go to the store anytime you wanted and purchase an upgrade for your computer WITHOUT a Mac Genius to put it in for you. It was a disaster.
Thats a world I don't want to live in.
Ok, I can't continue to hold a straight face, why is apple releasing so much expensive crap in this economy.
03/26/09
2GB of RAM will be more than enough for most users, at the moment.
03/26/09
It looks like the 15" MacBook pros @ 2.66Ghz start at 4GB also, but I'm on the apple store right now and for the life of me I can't find a memory option for that computer...
03/26/09
03/26/09
Sorry to repeat myself -- said this in a reply above:
@ Apple Store you are paying for an upgrade to 8GB from (AFAIK) 4GB, so the $1200 is technically for 4GB of RAM, not 8.
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03/26/09
*With the proper Torx screwdriver set, one can just as well open the proprietary 360 HDD enclosure and swap the SATA drive
03/26/09
~JYH
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(these figures may be totally wrong. I didn't invest a lot of time in them. If they are awry, I'm sure some kind soul will calmly and courteously let me know...)
03/26/09
::clears throat::
NO! You fucking moron! You don't need the ";" you could just use "and" you IDIOT! I hate you and I have nothing better to do with my time other than to correct grammar and spelling as it fills the empty void in my life that my parents took away when they abandoned me! Though I am justified in my anger because you are wrong!
Also, it should be 8,000 RAM slots YOU INCOMPETENT FOOL! ARHGHASDOGJHASEG:L#JKHT:ALEKHt! I AM GIZ POSTER!
::clears throat::
Eh hem. Excuse me. The ";" may be right, and the 7,998, but I couldn't find anything wrong with your post so I had to make it up in order to do a proper rendition of "Le Giz Poster". Thank you.
::bows::