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What I find outrageous is that consumers accept the fact that their expensive new Mac has become a non upgradable black box. Apparently, years of exposure to th
by squarefoot 6y ago
What I find outrageous is that consumers accept the fact that their expensive new Mac has become a non upgradable black box. Apparently, years of exposure to the dependency from tight closed cellphones did the job.
Long gone are the days of the Apple II; I still recall it being labeled as the best possible home computer for being so open to expansion and tinkering.
- Shadonototro 6y agoHow people expect to, at the same time, having thin, light, fanless laptop, and it being fully upgradeable with replaceable parts i think the people who want that are either delusional, or are just not the target audience looking at the sales, it's probably only just people who like to complain at Apple for doing what they can't do
- anfilt 6y agothe connectors for storage and ram can be very low profile. There is no reason any sane layout with connectors would add to the thickness. Its especially egregious storage is a soldered device. Not just from an upgrade standpoint but data recovery point of view. If some other part fails and basically makes the device a brick there is now no easy way to recover the data.
- Klwohu 6y agoI've got this old HP-42s calculator here in front of me, which has no viable upgrade path, and adjusted for inflation it was more expensive than an entry level M1. I have an HP-67 and an HP-97 as well, neither of which has any upgrade path and they each cost half as much as a new economy car when they came out.
- squarefoot 6y agoThey were different products for different tasks, and the fact that they can still be used after decades shows how much they're different from a computer, particularly a modern computer. Today not being able to upgrade the RAM or storage, or having a non replaceable battery can mean halving the life of a product, which in today figures would not be like 15 years instead of 30 but rather 2.5 instead of 5.
- Klwohu 6y agoI still use an over ten year old Thinkpad as my daily driver. It’s not as dire as all that.
- squarefoot 6y agoMy X240 isn't yet 10 years old, but as of today is among the fastest machines in my house: It literally flies with Debian+XFCE. It's remarkable how long hardware can last if we ditch bloated software.