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For the 40th Anniversary of the Mac... here are 40 years of All-In-One Macs' base SKU memory capacities.

It's sometimes tricky to tell which SKUs were still on sale at what time, so this is just based on "entry level" product introductions.

Memory increased quickly until the Mac Plus. 1986 to 1990 were all about decreasing the entry Mac price. Then we get a pretty straight logarithmic line until Tim Cook became CEO and there has only been a single increase since.

@dschaub @atpfm @siracusa If that chart were to keep going, where would we be right now?
@JoshHrach @dschaub @atpfm @siracusa eyeballing it where the RAM was increasing 10-fold every 6 years and taking 500 MB in 2006 from the chart, we would be on 500 GB in the base model in 2024. So although Tim’s era has plateaued, clearly Apple aren’t that far behind the market trend since no “normal” computers are being sold with that amount of RAM.
@sdjmchattie RAM pricing, OTOH…
@siracusa mmmm yeah. Apple’s upgrade pricing for RAM is criminal.
@sdjmchattie @siracusa and storage 🤯