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I'm in your boat. My history with Apple goes back even longer, to the Apple II and Mac SE. I've lost track of how much Apple gear I've purchased in the last thr
by js2 8y ago
I'm in your boat. My history with Apple goes back even longer, to the Apple II and Mac SE. I've lost track of how much Apple gear I've purchased in the last three+ decades. The only non-upgradeable part that cheeses me is the storage. And the battery should be user swappable. Aside from reliability issues like the keyboard/display which Apple obviously has to fix, those are the only two parts which I almost always need to upgrade or replace later. Storage just keeps getting denser and cheaper over time. Batteries wear out. But CPUs and memory, these days I can figure out what I want at purchase time and those will be good for years.
I recently purchase a 13" air, despite the ancient design and shitty screen, because I refuse to buy something that I couldn't swap the SSD and battery. (And I couldn't find a suitable used 2015 mbp.)
I was just lamenting to my wife as I was browsing Apple's web site and the mess that is the Apple lineup: there's no way Steve Jobs would have put up with this shit. Yes, I know he was responsible for the G4 Cube, and some other silly things... but today's Apple lineup, shipping a brand new iPad with only Pencil 1 support? Cook would go to Jobs and say, "but look at the process efficiency" and Jobs would just say, GTFO! I'm sure of it.
Look I get that most consumers aren't opening their devices. But throw the pros a bone already. All Apple is making these days are Lamborghinis. That's not what pros want: just give us a really fast pickup truck! Please Apple?
- novok 8y agoFor me, I think something like an sd express slot and their 1000MB/s performance profile, where cards would be flush with the laptop case, would be a good solution.
- soneil 8y agoI do understand most of their trade-offs. But these little m2 nvme sticks should be just as easy to expose as ram is. That'd make a huge difference for me. Being locked in to a purchase-time decision doesn't sit well with how quickly SSD capacities and prices evolve.
- js2 8y agoYup, I’ve upgraded two Apple laptops already with NVMe adapters and Samsung SSDs. https://www.amazon.com/Sintech-Adapter-Upgrade-2013-2016-2013-2015/dp/B07FYY3H5F https://www.amazon.com/Sintech-Adapter-Upgrade-2013-2016-201...
- soneil 8y agoI had in mind the 27” imac which technically has replaceable storage, but you need to be comfortable taking a pizza cutter to the glass. While I’m glad for the trapdoor RAM slot, it does feel like a shame there apparently wasn’t any spare space on the 7 square miles of aluminium on the rear of the machine, to put an M2 slot behind a similar trapdoor.
- jimbokun 8y ago"there's no way Steve Jobs would have put up with this shit." The first thing Jobs did upon returning to Apple is reduce the product line to exactly four products. Consumer and pro laptop, consumer and pro desktop.
- wilsonnb3 8y agoThat’s true, but you shouldn’t assume he would do the same now. Apple in 2019 with a market cap of ~1,000,000,000,000 is vastly different than Apple in 1997 a few months from bankruptcy.