> To be fair, Apple depends on Intel Corp., which still makes key chips for Macs. Like the rest of the PC industry, Apple's innovation and product cycles are so

> To be fair, Apple depends on Intel Corp., which still makes key chips for Macs. Like the rest of the PC industry, Apple's innovation and product cycles are sometimes constrained by when Intel produces new chips—a process that's getting more difficult. So, given that constraint, maybe Apple should make it easy for the end user to upgrade everything else (e.g. RAM and flash storage) instead of really hard or impossible. But, it's more like "You're stuck with this new Intel processor which is basically similar to the previous one, so we'll just bind it as permanently as possible to all of the other components so that, when you want a larger drive, you'll have to replace the processor too." Maybe Intel is dictating this "permanent glue and solder" strategy to Apple...