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They did it to prevent people from upgrading the RAM, and instead having to buy an entirely new machine.
by user3939382 4y ago
They did it to prevent people from upgrading the RAM, and instead having to buy an entirely new machine.
- acdha 4y agoYou’re talking like you know this for a fact. Did you work at Apple? Do you have copies of internal documents?
- colejohnson66 4y agoProof besides a hunch? Hector Martin says there’s a valid reason to solder RAM: https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1542533147039977473 https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1542533147039977473
- Panzer04 4y agoThere being valid reasons to solder RAM doesn't preclude being annoyed at Apple for charging 3x the market rate to upgrade it with them, I suppose. It'd be a lot less controversial if that were the case IMO.
- acdha 4y agoI don’t think anyone is saying you can’t question their pricing. My disagreement is solely with the very confident assertion that this is done to prevent upgrades with no awareness of all of the other reasons.
- asdff 4y agoI wouldn't be surprised. It was common back then to hear on forums to never waste money speccing up the ram on macs, since you can upgrade it yourself for half the price with sticks from crucial. It was always a $200 upgrade even when you were just getting another 4gb of DDR3.