[white-flame]

Technically, that was because of battery life, not thickness. The limits on that particular Intel chipset are 16GB LPDDR3 or 32GB non-low power DDR4, and Apple chose to use the LPDDR3.

I have a basic 32GB DDR4 laptop* which was contemporary to the touchbar MBP, and while I'm very happy with the running battery life, the suspended battery life isn't as long as I would prefer (usually doesn't last 24 hours). I suspect that's because of the RAM. However, the MBP has a larger battery than mine, so I don't think it would have been that big of a problem.

[* = Clevo N240BU, same as the newest System76 Lemur. i7-7500U, iGPU, opted for m.2 only, 4-cell removable battery, slim 14" 1080p, real HDMI/ethernet/USB-A&C/headphone/SD ports.]

[megaman22]

I'll be honest, I haven't bothered with suspend/hibernate in years, because it is so broken on every Windows machine I've ever tried. In these days of SSDs and OS's that boot up in five seconds, I just turn off my machine whenever I put it away not on AC power.

[eitland]

No big Windows fan but IIRC suspend/resume has mostly worked just as well on all my recent Windows laptops as on my old Macbook Pro and they both easily beats ny current Ubuntu setup.

Still prefer my Ubuntu on Dell setup though.

[unknown_apostle]

True, but I was taking a short cut :-) With the old "thick" MBP chassis (which was plenty thin for me), they could put in DDR4 and still have enough battery life.

Btw never managed to get 24 hours out of any MacBookPro?