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  • Apple to offer 32GB of desktop RAM in top-end 2017 MacBook Pro, 16GB for 12" MacBook

    Chris JChris J
    Hasn't this discussion been had before? Mr Kuo can speculate all he likes but the implications from the intel roadmap are pretty clear...

    It's very unlikely we will see a MBP with 32 GB RAM this year. Both skylake and Kaby Lake professor families do support >16GB RAM but LPDDR3 is only supported up to 16GB. Anything more will need to be DDR4, which is too detrimental to battery life to be feasible.

    The Kaby Lake processors bring better on-chip graphics performance so it might be worth an update for the MacBook range but it's not really worth it for the pro range, which utilise the AMD Radeon discrete graphics and therefore wouldn't really benefit.

    In the absence of an unlikely switch to new processor architectures by Apple, Everything on the intel roadmap points to the next 13/15" MacBook to refresh being 2H 2018 with Coffee Lake processors.
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