Oliver Haslam on August 26, 2024, 2:36 pm

Apple’s M4 Macs Could Finally Ditch 8GB RAM For 16GB In Entry Level Models

For years now, those buying an entry-level Mac have found themselves stuck with just 8GB of RAM. Whether or not that’s enough is a matter for debate, but a new report suggests that Apple’s upgraded M4 models will start with 16GB of storage for the first time.

While buying some of the higher-end Macs will get buyers 16GB of RAM right now, the 8GB of RAM is the amount people will deal with when they receive a MacBook Air, Mac mini, and more.

But Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman believes that things will change when the M4 Macs start to arrive later this year.

They all represent models with base-level versions of the M4 chip. Three of the Macs have 10 total cores in their central processing units, or CPUs, while one low-end version includes eight total cores — a measure of performance. The versions with 10-core CPUs also have 10-core GPUs, or graphics engines. The model with an eight-core CPU, meanwhile, has an eight-core graphics engine. They all have either 16 or 32 gigabytes of memory.

The move to 16GB of RAM will mean that the M4 chips will be even more performant, including for the upcoming Apple Intelligence features that will be part of the upcoming macOS Sequoia software.

Why Apple has chosen to upgrade the RAM this time around isn’t yet clear, but it’s a decision that is sure to be well received by those who will now seemingly get twice as much RAM as would previously have been the case.