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> The difference is that you can buy the upgraded parts from a third party. This has always been difficult with Apple. Not "always". This is an artifact of th
by tedmiston 3y ago
> The difference is that you can buy the upgraded parts from a third party. This has always been difficult with Apple.
Not "always". This is an artifact of the MacBook Air modern "appliance" era of Apple (and laptops / computing in general) where thin and light bodied laptops and compactness are the highest priorities, prized above self-service, upgradability, etc.
PowerBooks, by contrast, were amazingly and easily upgradable. You didn't even have to open up the case to do a memory upgrade — the keyboard just popped right up.
Two decades ago, the Framework laptop would have never needed to exist. And for the most part, likewise with Hackintoshes.
- Nullabillity 3y agoNo, this bullshit goes back all the way to the original mac: https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Diagnostic_Port.txt&detail=medium https://www.folklore.org/StoryView.py?story=Diagnostic_Port..... Apple has always been rotten to the very core.
- tedmiston 3y agoI don't think the linked discussion about the earliest Macs in the early '80s not having extra peripheral slots is saying the same thing as consumers being able to upgrade memory and storage. To the best of my knowledge / memory / experience, all of the Mac models introduced prior to the Air in 2008 had upgradable memory and storage.
- simondotau 3y agoWas it really bullshit? I dare say that if you look at home computing platforms available in the early 1980s, most had no first-party support for third-party memory upgrades.
- dev_tty01 3y agoSure, that's a story from 1983 but it is in direct conflict with facts. I have owned several powerbooks, macbooks, and macbook pros and up until fairly recently they were all upgradeable with respect to RAM and drives.
- Nullabillity 3y agoIt's not about memory specifically, but about their principle of trying to push the boundaries of how much you can do to prevent upgrades and service.
- irrational 3y agoI had a Mac laptop (don’t remember the model), earlier in the century and upgrading the memory in it was simple.