{"id":1277,"date":"2024-10-30T18:30:04","date_gmt":"2024-10-30T19:30:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/?p=1277"},"modified":"2025-05-09T13:15:35","modified_gmt":"2025-05-09T13:15:35","slug":"end-of-an-era-apple-discontinues-8gb-ram-macs-as-the-entire-lineup-now-starts-with-16gb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/2024\/10\/30\/end-of-an-era-apple-discontinues-8gb-ram-macs-as-the-entire-lineup-now-starts-with-16gb\/","title":{"rendered":"End of an era: Apple discontinues 8GB RAM Macs as the entire lineup now starts with 16GB"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"feat-image\"><img src=\"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/mac-lineup-2024.jpg\" \/><\/div>\n<p>It\u2019s officially the end of an era. Apple on Wednesday held the last day of its <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2024\/10\/30\/all-the-m4-mac-highlights-from-apples-big-announcements\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">super week of Mac announcements<\/a>, this time with the launch of a <a href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2024\/10\/30\/new-macbook-pro-lineup-m4-features\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">new generation MacBook Pro with an M4 chip<\/a>. But the company also did something else: it upgraded all Macs with 16GB of RAM as standard, putting an end to 8GB Macs.<\/p>\n<p> <a data-layer-pagetype=\"post\" data-layer-postcategory=\"mac,opinion\" data-layer-viewtype=\"taxonomy-ninetofive_guides\" data-post-id=\"976100\" href=\"https:\/\/9to5mac.com\/2024\/10\/30\/apple-8gb-16gb-ram-mac\/#more-976100\" class=\"more-link\">more\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It\u2019s officially the end of an era. Apple on Wednesday held the last day of its super week ...<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1121,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1277"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1279,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1277\/revisions\/1279"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1277"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1277"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/stonegatepress.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1277"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}