Subj : Re: the mac club
To   : hollowone
From : Nightfox
Date : Fri Jun 27 2025 01:48 pm

  Re: Re: the mac club
  By: hollowone to Nightfox on Fri Jun 27 2025 12:04 pm

 Ni>> I don't think they're upgradeable, are they?  That's the thing I don't
 Ni>> like about Apple's products these days..  If you want better specs, you
 Ni>> can't upgrade it, you have to buy a whole new one.

 ho> Yep but the baseline + extra ram is still affordable and comparable to
 ho> similar performance on PC for a rig that you'd consider 5 years life
 ho> cycle, so that's still ok.

In the past, I'd noticed Apple would charge a lot for RAM, and I could buy RAM for maybe half or 60% of Apple's cost elsewhere and upgrade it myself..  I imagine Apple probably charges a premium for RAM on their systems, and naturally, having them non-upgradeable means you need to pay Apple's prices for the RAM.  I'm not totally convinced the decision to not make them upgradeable wasn't (at least partially) a decision by Apple to try to increase their profits by forcing you to buy their RAM upgrade rather than buy RAM elsewhere.

Nightfox
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