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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by dheera on Thursday November 12, 2020 @01:16AM (#25067016)
> The cheapest desktop option is $6000 with an 8 core cpu or 8000 with a 16 core.

And also with RAM and SSD idiotically soldered in so 2 years later you need to spend another $6000, while a couple weeks ago I spent a grand total of $400 to upgrade my 2TB SSD to 4TB.

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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by karlshea on Thursday November 12, 2020 @01:24AM (#25067043)
The RAM and SSD are not soldered in on the Mac Pro, which is the machine I assume they're talking about given the price.
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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by dheera on Thursday November 12, 2020 @12:02PM (#25071844)
Okay, point taken, but I believe the RAM and SSD are not user-replaceable on the MacBook Pro, MacBook Air, and iMac, whereas both are user-serviceable on almost every other brand of laptop and all-in-one PC on the market.
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Re:Apple Silicon M1 chip in MacBook Air outperforms high-end... by iforgotaboutit on Thursday November 12, 2020 @01:36AM (#25067099)
fyi, RAM is not soldered (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210103) and there are unoccupied PCI slots to install SSDs in (https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT210408)
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