I'm going to install Linux Mint 17.1 Cinnamon on my Retina Display MacBook Pro. It has 8 GB of memory. I don't know whether it can be upgraded but I don't see

I'm going to install Linux Mint 17.1 Cinnamon on my Retina Display MacBook Pro. It has 8 GB of memory. I don't know whether it can be upgraded but I don't see a panel for installing extra memory. IMHO 8 GB is plenty for anything I'd ever want to do with a laptop. My Xeon workstation has 16 GB; it never ever experiences page faults. But if it did, it's socketed for 64 GB of FB-DIMM. Apple hardware, for the most part, holds its value better than your typical boxen that is used for Windows. If you got the same configuration I had, you could purchase it used for less than a grand, install Linux on it, then be very happy. I really like my Retina display, so much so that I actively dislike regular screens. My understanding is that Linux supports the Retina - it's called something else under Linux - and that this support can be enabled by Mint, but I haven't actually checked. VirtualBox doesn't support the Retina, I think I'd have to boot natively to use it. I was OK with Snow Leopard, but IMHO, OS X as well as iOS have been going downhill since. I may not even submit my App to the App Store. I might well just provide a source tarball on my website, then say goodbye to the Steve Jobs Reality Distortion Field for good. This has been a tough decision, as I was once a White Badge Apple Employee, and on another occasion did QA tools there as a contract programmer. Apple is a great place to work, but it has always sucked to be an Apple developer.