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All of Apple’s Macs now start with 16GB of RAM

A long overdue upgrade to Apple’s entry-level models.

That was true of the new Mac Mini, MacBook Pro, and iMac, which were all refreshed with M4 processors this week. Local AI features like Apple Intelligence, which need constant RAM to work, have only accentuated the need to change things. As I wrote in September, the general approach to running on-device AI models is to keep them persistently loaded in RAM.

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