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Hardware

google just doubled the Pixel's storage — and quietly used the RAM crisis to explain it away

the Pixel 11 starts at 256GB instead of 128GB, for the same $899 as last year. that sounds generous until you realize why storage doubled right when memory got expensive.

Ravi Malhotra · Aug 13 · 7 min

AI

apple quietly cut its priciest Mac's RAM by 81% — and it might still be the smarter local-AI buy

Apple's own memory shortage just raised Mac Studio prices and gutted its top RAM tier — here's whether it's still worth buying over a GPU PC for running models at home.

Lena Fischer · Aug 4 · 8 min