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The new M1 machines seem cool, and I almost considered grabbing a MacBook or Mac Mini last year, but I'm worried about the complete lack of upgradability. From
by the_only_law 6y ago
The new M1 machines seem cool, and I almost considered grabbing a MacBook or Mac Mini last year, but I'm worried about the complete lack of upgradability.
From my understanding, the older Intel models of some Apple devices at least had some level of upgradability (memory, etc.), but the the memory being on the SoC, I can't buy a cheaper model and hat upgrade it later as I see fit. So if I need something new later, I have to purchase a brand new, expensive machine.
- culopatin 6y agoThis has been the case for years now, and other manufacturers are following the same trend. I'm starting to find that I rarely upgrade things anyway because by the time I need to upgrade, things like the CPU might be too slow anyway, or ports have drifted away to USB-X and Thunderbolt 12 and the whole device falls behind. I say this as the owner of a maxed out Thinkpad X1 Yoga 1st gen. I tend to buy used top of the line and forget about upgrades. The ram is soldered in this one as well, but I can change SSDs and WiFi cards, which is very nice. It's been running MacOS Catalina for more than a year now and rock solid stable, so basically a $300 i7, 16GBRAM /512GBSSD 1440p 14in Macbook that is lighter than the 13in Pro. The cons are the damn speakers, if this thing had good speakers I wouldn't even consider a Macbook.