Re:New Apple Macbook Pro RAM is soldered to the motherboard ...
by 51Cards on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @11:21AM
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For most people a $2000 laptop is a lot more than a few weeks of savings however... in fact I'd say that's true for most of the target market.
The asking people to educate themselves on this product runs directly counter to Apples marketing. Apple wants to (has) made computers an appliance and doesn't want the user to think about the insides. Asking the user to educate themselves on the internals of their Apple notebook is asking them to go back to PC style thinking, exactly what Apple has worked to kill. And now that that style of thinking is dead, they (seem to) purposely make the machine non-serviceable because no one asks anymore.
Re:New Apple Macbook Pro RAM is soldered to the motherboard ...
by WiseWeasel on Wednesday June 13, 2012 @11:38AM
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Not to mention that unlike cars, Apple laptops maintain their value surprisingly well. After two years, you can probably still get at least half what you paid out of it.
To me that makes all of the difference.
I think people should educate themselves on the product and if it doesn't fit within their use case then they should find a product that does. I personally think that this is a terrific looking laptop and has enough local processing power that combined with my increasing cloud reliance could be a good fit for a number of years.