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Who cares. I do not care one bit if I can replace or repair my MacBook or MacBook Air. You know what I care about - the fact that it is very light and I can use

Who cares. I do not care one bit if I can replace or repair my MacBook or MacBook Air. You know what I care about - the fact that it is very light and I can use it on the flight from San Francisco to Tokyo. Everyone that cares really need to get over themselves. Welcome to the world of solid state. Heck, if it made them more reliable and run longer they could fill the inside with gel for all I care. I buy this because it works and when it does not Apple fixes it. Just to be clear I no longer fix or repair my: 1. car 2. LCD TV 3. stereo 4. every other piece of electronics made after 2006 or so They are just to complex anymore and I just do not care.

static_typed 13y ago
Some of us do care. We care about paying more for overpriced RAM upfront because we cannot upgrade later. We care that we have to leave our laptop with Apple for long periods of time to do repairs of any kind (do they repair? Probably replace). We also care about the environment. Shiny is nice, but shiny comes at a cost way above the dollar sales ticket. Still. Some don't care.
- myrandomcomment 13y ago
  Then do not by a BMW - buy a Ford.
  - myrandomcomment 13y ago
    Nice, down voted for speaking the truth. Let me try again with a bit more detail. Look, if you do not like a product then do not buy it. That is the way it works. Apple makes higher priced higher quality kit and they charge for it. If you are not willing to pay for that then buy something else. If the world agrees with you then they will start to loose sales and change the thing that bugged you. I for one have no issues paying for the level of quality and service I get from Apple. In the life time of the device I buy that extra 10% just does not really matter.
  - Spooky23 13y ago
    Agree with you up a point. But I don't think this is a BMW/Ford issue. I do think that glued in memory is a dumb thing. Memory is almost like a consumable and prices tend to vary dramatically within the service life of a laptop. Bigger chips come out, prices drop, etc. If 1% of the population is capable of doing a trackpad or screen replacement, 15% are capable of doing a ram upgrade. Also your needs change. I never did video editing, ever -- then we had a baby. That new need drove me to upgrade my 2008 iMac, as it just didn't have the juice. Memory is different, there are lots of elegant ways to approach that problem without compromising the design aesthetic -- in fact Apple has done this with other computers. Saying "buy a Ford" isn't a useful response. Apple is the sole owner of the Mac OS platform. I can buy an HP laptop, but I miss out on the value that the platform brings -- I don't want Windows or Linux.
swah 13y ago
I wish my country had enough capitalism to live like that - its not the reality yet, though.
- deleted 13y ago
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static_typed 13y ago

Some of us do care. We care about paying more for overpriced RAM upfront because we cannot upgrade later. We care that we have to leave our laptop with Apple for long periods of time to do repairs of any kind (do they repair? Probably replace). We also care about the environment. Shiny is nice, but shiny comes at a cost way above the dollar sales ticket. Still. Some don't care.

myrandomcomment 13y ago
Then do not by a BMW - buy a Ford.
- myrandomcomment 13y ago
  Nice, down voted for speaking the truth. Let me try again with a bit more detail. Look, if you do not like a product then do not buy it. That is the way it works. Apple makes higher priced higher quality kit and they charge for it. If you are not willing to pay for that then buy something else. If the world agrees with you then they will start to loose sales and change the thing that bugged you. I for one have no issues paying for the level of quality and service I get from Apple. In the life time of the device I buy that extra 10% just does not really matter.
- Spooky23 13y ago
  Agree with you up a point. But I don't think this is a BMW/Ford issue. I do think that glued in memory is a dumb thing. Memory is almost like a consumable and prices tend to vary dramatically within the service life of a laptop. Bigger chips come out, prices drop, etc. If 1% of the population is capable of doing a trackpad or screen replacement, 15% are capable of doing a ram upgrade. Also your needs change. I never did video editing, ever -- then we had a baby. That new need drove me to upgrade my 2008 iMac, as it just didn't have the juice. Memory is different, there are lots of elegant ways to approach that problem without compromising the design aesthetic -- in fact Apple has done this with other computers. Saying "buy a Ford" isn't a useful response. Apple is the sole owner of the Mac OS platform. I can buy an HP laptop, but I miss out on the value that the platform brings -- I don't want Windows or Linux.

swah 13y ago

I wish my country had enough capitalism to live like that - its not the reality yet, though.

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