Before the move to Apple Silicon this could have been put down to Apple’s intransigence (although you could still upgrade the SSD on the Intel Macbooks), but with the additional integration of the M1 and now M2 and M3 then it’s the way it has to be in order to pull off what it does.
Yea that’s one of the reasons I’m still using the same 2011 iMac and 2013 macbook pro. They are still working just fine and I can’t justify upgrading yet because of the customization I will lose. It’s a shame, really. I will have to soon though bc I’m stuck on older OS with no official way to upgrade so I’m losing app support.
May I ask you more about this? I’m sure you definitely wrecked maxed out your ram, and probably upgraded your SSD once or twice, but did you also upgrade the CPU? I’m curious if that’s possible on the earlier models.
Yep, Apple is super anti-consumer that way. I can understand loving the ecosystem, but Apple sucks for soldering RAM on the board. Dell did a great job of making it pretty easy to access the RAM on their XPS laptops.
The biggest problem is the price gouging on the ram upgrades. 8gb of ram on the base M3 macbook is an insult in 2023, and apple charges an additional 200$ per 8gb.
I still hate non-upgradeable RAM and SSD.
I feel like European right to repair laws are not going to let it go.
I hope at least…
Before the move to Apple Silicon this could have been put down to Apple’s intransigence (although you could still upgrade the SSD on the Intel Macbooks), but with the additional integration of the M1 and now M2 and M3 then it’s the way it has to be in order to pull off what it does.
Yea that’s one of the reasons I’m still using the same 2011 iMac and 2013 macbook pro. They are still working just fine and I can’t justify upgrading yet because of the customization I will lose. It’s a shame, really. I will have to soon though bc I’m stuck on older OS with no official way to upgrade so I’m losing app support.
May I ask you more about this? I’m sure you definitely wrecked maxed out your ram, and probably upgraded your SSD once or twice, but did you also upgrade the CPU? I’m curious if that’s possible on the earlier models.
Yep, Apple is super anti-consumer that way. I can understand loving the ecosystem, but Apple sucks for soldering RAM on the board. Dell did a great job of making it pretty easy to access the RAM on their XPS laptops.
I can forego maybe RAM considering its benefits being integrated into the SoC but for how much Apple charges for RAM fuck that
36GB is decent, but the next upgrade is 96GB for $800??
For $3200 with one TB SSD?
The biggest problem is the price gouging on the ram upgrades. 8gb of ram on the base M3 macbook is an insult in 2023, and apple charges an additional 200$ per 8gb.
Sadly that’s part of what makes it so fast