> Apple's irresponsible sales of unupgradable… Every upgradeable component needs a socket to plug the thing into, along with the module needing the compatible

> Apple's irresponsible sales of unupgradable… Every upgradeable component needs a socket to plug the thing into, along with the module needing the compatible plug design. This will add a non-zero amount of extra materials per laptop. Even just twice the amount of solder, never mind extra PCB space, copper and so on. If you never upgrade within the lifetime of the device, then that is essentially waste. If the majority of people don’t upgrade then that could end up being significant. You can also flip the irresponsibility back to software engineers. Are basic users really doing anything that needs 8Gb of RAM these days that you couldn’t do with much less 20 years ago? Why do we have RAM inflation?