DDR3
Noun
Meaning
DDR3 (plural DDR3s)
Initialism of double data rate third generation.
Examples
DDR2 was in turn superseded by DDR3 SDRAM which offered higher performance for increased bus speeds and new features.
On single-processor platform, the codenamed Catalunya platform consists of codenamed Suzuka 45 nm quad-core processor with AMD SR5580 + SP5100 chipset and DDR3 support.
As expected, you can get up to 16GB of DDR3 RAM and a 1TB PCIe solid-state drive (SSD).
As far as the system I am using, as of this post I'm on a MacBook Air with the following features: (1) 1.3 GHz Intel Core i5 processor; (2) 8 GB 1600 MHz DDR3; (3) Mac OS X El Capitan 10.11.
The base system will be powered by a Core i3 dual-core processor paired with HM65 chipset, about 4 GB of dual-channel DDR3 memory, 40 GB mSATA SSD, HDMI, mini-DisplayPort, WiFi, and Bluetooth.
In my opinion 16GB of DDR3 and not being able to upgrade when spending almost $3000.00 on a laptop is unacceptable, i'll deal with it for now as i only use this for some editing but that is very frustrating.