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Does that mean the discount is only for Americans? I don't see anything about it on the Dutch version of the Apple site. Still looks pretty affordable. Until y
by mcv 2y ago
Does that mean the discount is only for Americans? I don't see anything about it on the Dutch version of the Apple site.
Still looks pretty affordable. Until you look at the upgrades. € 230,00 for +8 MB RAM?! There are places you can get that for a tenth of that price.
I suppose doing your own upgrades isn't an option anymore? (My last Mac was a 2011 unibody.)
- giobox 2y agoThey have variations of the program in some European countries. It's been a long time for me, but in the UK they used to just whitelist university domains (we didn't use .edu TLDs either).
- nextos 2y agoAFAIK, in most of the EU they validate you are a student or an academic through UNiDAYS.
- OJFord 2y agoWe use .ac.uk though (and much of the non-USA world uses .ac.ccTLD similarly) so no need to whitelist individual university domains. I don't know about Apple, but that's a common approach. (And does irritate some where they don't use either and get missed, Canada for example.)
- jhugo 2y agoSome countries place no restrictions on registering domains under their .ac second level domain though.
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- talldayo 2y ago> € 230,00 for +8 MB RAM?! There are places you can get that for a tenth of that price. "Comparing our memory to other system's memory actually isn't equivalent [...] because of the fact that we have such an efficient use of memory, and we use memory compression, and we have a unified memory architecture." - Bob Borchers, Apple vice president of worldwide product marketing (who apparently never heard of zram)
- throawayonthe 2y agowindows also uses memory compression
- FireBeyond 2y agoYeah, that doesn't explain why the Intel Mac Pro cheesegrater wanted $3,000 for 160GB of socketed RAM that OWC would sell from the same manufacturer, same speeds, for $1,000 for 192GB. Sorry Bob, architecture may be different now, but Apple has always been egregious.
- MonkeyClub 2y agoBut what's the point in Borcher's comment? Because there's efficient software use of memory, it's legitimate to put a tenfold price marker on the hardware?
- GustaBOT 2y agoSince the first ARM systems (may be before) you can’t upgrade things on your own, i had an Air which can be SSD upgraded but not memory upgraded. Memory can only be upgraded from factory.
- HeatrayEnjoyer 2y agoYou could just solder on a new ram set
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- jtwaleson 2y agoThe amount of people for whom this is a "just" kind of task is very very low. I don't think "just" should be in that sentence ;)
- baq 2y ago"just" at home: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRRNR4HyYaw https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KRRNR4HyYaw Previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41631130 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41631130
- triyambakam 2y agoUnless you are dosdude on Youtube "MacBook Air 16GB RAM Upgrade" https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxbVxaScZQ4 https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ZxbVxaScZQ4
- wishfish 2y agoOne thing that will potentially future-proof the new Mac Mini is that the SSD is on a removable board. It's a custom Apple design but someone's already hand made their own upgrade. Wouldn't be surprised if there will be 3rd party upgrades commercially available within a year.
- saagarjha 2y ago€23 for 8 MB of RAM sounds a bit too expensive, to be honest.