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No, 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.
by Nullabillity 3y ago
No, 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.