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    Image of Bigbadbikernerd Bigbadbikernerd
    08/12/09

    In reply to 8GB iPhone 3GS Rumor Refuses to Die (Because It Might Actually Be True)
    Maybe that is what the new Apple ad is all about. Since it's set in a diner (which probably wouldn't have Wi-Fi), perhaps it's for the 3GS 8GB...
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    Image of Noobs-R-Us Noobs-R-Us
    08/12/09

    In reply to 8GB iPhone 3GS Rumor Refuses to Die (Because It Might Actually Be True)
    Perhaps this is just a placeholder for the new Apple Tablet that will soon be announced.
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    Image of OMG! Ponies! OMG! Ponies!
    04/09/09

    In reply to Unconfirmed: Apple Orders 100 Million 8GB Chips for New Handhelds
    Why not just order one 800 million GB chip?


    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.

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    Image of weatherman weatherman
    04/09/09

    In reply to Unconfirmed: Apple Orders 100 Million 8GB Chips for New Handhelds
    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.

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    Image of The Chad The Chad
    04/09/09

    @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.
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    Image of weatherman weatherman
    04/09/09

    @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.

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    Image of Mike Delozier Mike Delozier
    03/26/09

    In reply to Apple Now Offers $1200 8GB RAM Upgrade on New MacBook Pros, Backwards Compatibility Unclear
    $1200????

    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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    Image of B1663R B1663R
    03/26/09

    @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...
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    03/26/09

    In reply to Apple Now Offers $1200 8GB RAM Upgrade on New MacBook Pros, Backwards Compatibility Unclear
    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!! ;-)
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    Image of balls187 balls187
    03/26/09

    @Is my Avatar inappropriate?: What kind of work do you do on your MacPro? Or was it "I can get 16GB, so why not?"
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    03/26/09

    In reply to Apple Now Offers $1200 8GB RAM Upgrade on New MacBook Pros, Backwards Compatibility Unclear
    In for two....THOUSAND!!!!!


    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.

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    Image of B1663R B1663R
    03/26/09

    In reply to Apple Now Offers $1200 8GB RAM Upgrade on New MacBook Pros, Backwards Compatibility Unclear
    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!

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    Image of B1663R B1663R
    03/26/09

    @B1663R: Btw i have a HP MDX 18" which cost about a 100 bucks less than the macbook... just sayin is all
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    Image of imTheKing imTheKing
    03/26/09

    @B1663R: what type of plastic is your computer made out of?


    oh and vista....... hahhahahahahaha

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    Image of B1663R B1663R
    03/26/09

    @imTheKing:
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    Image of B1663R B1663R
    03/26/09

    @B1663R: here. to upgrade my "crappy laptop" to 8gb of ram is $420.00

    check it... OH NOES ITS A LINK TO HP!!
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    03/26/09

    @B1663R:
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    Image of Nick Nick
    03/26/09

    In reply to Apple Now Offers $1200 8GB RAM Upgrade on New MacBook Pros, Backwards Compatibility Unclear
    just buy 6 Dell minis for that price and hackintosh 'em. literally. someone please do it. and then send me one. my address is 9603 ba....
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    Image of CopyPaste CopyPaste
    03/26/09

    In reply to Apple Now Offers $1200 8GB RAM Upgrade on New MacBook Pros, Backwards Compatibility Unclear
    I think that price for 8gb of ram is super fair.


    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.

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    03/26/09

    @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.

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    Image of ScottRose ScottRose
    03/26/09

    In reply to Apple Now Offers $1200 8GB RAM Upgrade on New MacBook Pros, Backwards Compatibility Unclear
    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...

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    Image of KBeat KBeat
    03/26/09

    In reply to Apple Now Offers $1200 8GB RAM Upgrade on New MacBook Pros, Backwards Compatibility Unclear
    FWIW, an 8 GB kit at Crucial.com runs $979
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    Image of ScottRose ScottRose
    03/26/09

    @KBeat:


    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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    Image of Juan Velazquez Juan Velazquez
    03/26/09

    In reply to Apple Now Offers $1200 8GB RAM Upgrade on New MacBook Pros, Backwards Compatibility Unclear
    Pathetic i wish people would stop supporting their ridicuolous mark ups. Their no better then what Microsoft and the markups on their Xbox 360 HDDs.
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    03/26/09

    @Juan Velazquez: Actually, Apple's RAM markup, while absurd, is not as bad, since RAM is not proprietary like the 360's hard drive cartridge case.*


    *With the proper Torx screwdriver set, one can just as well open the proprietary 360 HDD enclosure and swap the SATA drive

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    Image of HashMaster9000 HashMaster9000
    03/26/09

    @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...


    ~JYH

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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    03/26/09

    @JYHASH: Wow, that really sucks.
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    Image of Doc Benway Doc Benway
    03/26/09

    In reply to Apple Now Offers $1200 8GB RAM Upgrade on New MacBook Pros, Backwards Compatibility Unclear
    Hey guys do a bit more fact checking. The link to the ram modules are ddr2 not ddr3. But if you do shop around they are roughly half the price.
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    Image of Nick Nick
    03/26/09

    @Doc Benway: that screen shot says DDR3
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    Image of Kaiser-Machead Kaiser-Machead
    03/26/09

    In reply to Apple Now Offers $1200 8GB RAM Upgrade on New MacBook Pros, Backwards Compatibility Unclear
    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!
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    Image of Samu Wade Samu Wade
    03/26/09

    @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...)

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    Image of madog madog
    03/26/09

    @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.


    ::bows::

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