☕ David Antoine Apparently, the reason for limiting the new MacBook Pro 2016 to a maximum of 16 GB of RAM is because the Skylake architecture does not support low power DDR4 and that would draw to much from the battery, especially considering that it is much smaller than before on the new MP Pro... 9to5mac.com/2016/1... So, they kept LPDDR3 for power consumption reasons instead of using desktop grade DDR4 to allow 32 GB of RAM... Makes sense ? Or is it a obsolescence move from Apple ?

Mark Dain 16 GB is a decent amount of memory for most tasks but I've heard it can fall short when you're editing video, particularly 4K. I think Intel is partly to blame here too: they announced Kaby Lake only 2 months before the new MacBook Pros we're announced so they had probably already finished designing it with Skylake and had to carry on with that. It does mean next year Apple could make an updated build with Kaby Lake and LPDDR4. Apple has always been obsessed with thin and that means smaller batteries so I'm all for LP RAM if it'll help.

🏒 Lucian Marin macOS has memory compression. MacBooks Pro comes with very fast SSDs that can rival slow RAM from 10-15 years ago. Fast disk pagination along with memory compression on top of 16 GB of RAM is more than good for a power efficient laptop.