Well, we are not talking about the iPhone, which code quality and testing is deteriorating with any new iOS since the late Jobs left. It's about specific hardware that requires specific software to do specific tasks, that require specifically competent people. ESA staff is expected to provide an outcome of the highest quality. Nobody knows yet for sure the cause of the Mars lander crash.
There seem to be numerous demands for more than 16GB, and I wonder if battery life is the real reason. After all, Apple could sell most of their MBP with 16 GB and answer their more demanding users by selling a few 32 GBs - warning them the battery life is likely to suffer a bit. No, it's likely there are some other technical concerns that will be revealed by iFixit sooner or later, that had Apple take that decision.
Compared to a few years ago, Linux and the distros are more user friendly, more hardware support (less missing drivers), lots of free software, and many "main" applications have been improved a lot (think Gimp, Libre Office, wine...) . That gives a chance to users to try Linux and see for themselves that it's fast, reliable and has a lot of good open source software. Unfortunately for many demanding games, Windows is still the only alternative.
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Hmm Adobe? Not interested, thanks.
Macbook Pro?
they're using Ubuntu
Not an "obvious" question. As long as they're using Linux, I'm happy!
It took some time, but now I like it (and you can customize it with compiz-settings / Unity plugin)
Well, we are not talking about the iPhone, which code quality and testing is deteriorating with any new iOS since the late Jobs left. It's about specific hardware that requires specific software to do specific tasks, that require specifically competent people. ESA staff is expected to provide an outcome of the highest quality. Nobody knows yet for sure the cause of the Mars lander crash.
Because the client and server don't have the same OS.
The last time such an "intelligent signal" was caught by SETI, it was actually coming from Earth..
Testing on another planet is not that easy, though.
What is the consumption of 16 GB, 32 GB and so forth? Is it linear growth or something more extreme?
If the consumption grows according to Apple memory prices, that's exponential.
Running 2 or 3 VMs, like VirtualBox, happens... Like testing server + 2 different clients simultaneously..
Or maybe thickness is the only path of improvement they could come with.
Hmm have you tried recently, I mean since 2014, to install something like Ubuntu on your laptop?
640K but to be fair he said that in 1956
2019: laptops, 2020: phones
Having more than 2 tabs in Chrome (3 maybe?)
Funny but what if Apple doesn't sell enough MBP? will they maintain the overprice policy, or "discount appropriately"?
> What are people doing that requires so much memory?
MS Paint
VMs or video editing.
a $25 dongle?
There seem to be numerous demands for more than 16GB, and I wonder if battery life is the real reason. After all, Apple could sell most of their MBP with 16 GB and answer their more demanding users by selling a few 32 GBs - warning them the battery life is likely to suffer a bit. No, it's likely there are some other technical concerns that will be revealed by iFixit sooner or later, that had Apple take that decision.
Good luck unsoldering / soldering the RAM.
Could be even higher if the hardware was sold with a mandatory OS (Linux)
Could be higher if the hardware was not sold with a mandatory OS (Windows / Mac OS)
I suspect you were the one doing that not so funny joke about the Samsung Note 7 tendency to
Compared to a few years ago, Linux and the distros are more user friendly, more hardware support (less missing drivers), lots of free software, and many "main" applications have been improved a lot (think Gimp, Libre Office, wine...) . That gives a chance to users to try Linux and see for themselves that it's fast, reliable and has a lot of good open source software. Unfortunately for many demanding games, Windows is still the only alternative.