Apple continues to ramp up internal testing of the first M4 Mac models to be unveiled later this year, and a new piece of information suggests that the company will finally increase the minimum amount of unified memory on the Mac.
In a new report delving into Apple’s plans to unveil its upcoming crop of new devices including the iPhone 16 lineup, AirPods 4, and more, Bloomberg‘s Mark Gurman states that testing several M4 Mac models has ramped up within the company. More specifically, four new Macs with variants of the M4 chip have begun showing up in developer test logs in various CPU, GPU, and memory configurations.
Three tested Macs include an M4 chip with 10 CPU and 10 GPU cores, while a single low-end model is equipped with eight CPU and eight GPU cores. Interestingly, all tested models come with either 16GB or 32GB of unified memory, suggesting Apple will finally make way with the 8GB default option following continued criticism in recent years. Bigger memory capacities are always welcome, especially since Apple charges an extra $200 to upgrade the RAM from 8GB to 16GB on some Mac models.
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This is particularly important in the age of artificial intelligence and on-device AI models, which can consume copious amounts of memory. For example, Apple Intelligence only runs on iPhone, iPad, and Mac devices with a minimum of 8GB of RAM. This has led to the exclusion of most iPhone models from running Apple Intelligence, including the base iPhone 15 and iPhone 15 Plus as they only offer 6GB of memory.
The issue is more glaring on the Mac with the Preditcitve Code Completion feature coming to Xcode, which can automatically write up chunks of code for developers. Launching in beta, this feature can only run on Apple silicon Macs with at least 16GB of RAM.
