There’s literally no reason to charge $200 for 8GB and sell 1.8k laptops with only 8GB unless profits and planned obsolescence is all you care about.
Or to not include NVME 2280 slots on laptops weighing 2kg, when even 1kg ultraportables Windows laptops and tablets have removable and upgradable storage.
I would have been with you a few years ago. Now that they’re buying out TSMC production and designing their own CPUs I’m not so sure anymore. I can’t go back to a daily Windows device after using Silicon.
No one’s telling you to go to windows. He’s saying there’s no reason to charge those prices for ram / that weight is no excuse for Apple to not include those features.
There’s some mad cognitive dissonance going on in this subreddit. You can be in favor of Apple Silicon and still disagree about their business practices.
Oh, yeah, and the weight of the 2280 sticks themselves is like 7g. That’s 0.007kg, so it basically wouldn’t even register on a weight scale.
For memory, the excuse is LPDDR5 which has to be soldered.
But for storage, there’s no excuse, except that they started soldering before 2280 NVME became mainstream, so initially Apple’s storage was way faster than the older non-NVME sticks, but that time has long gone.
I think EU ought to create legislation to combat this digital waste and monopolistic pricing. If the computer retails at or above 1k and weighs above 1kg, it has to have removable storage support via NVME 2230, 2242 or 2280. Apple would probably be the only one that’s affected by such rules, and it’s be dubbed MacBook tax.
There’s literally no reason to charge $200 for 8GB and sell 1.8k laptops with only 8GB unless profits and planned obsolescence is all you care about.
Or to not include NVME 2280 slots on laptops weighing 2kg, when even 1kg ultraportables Windows laptops and tablets have removable and upgradable storage.
History repeats itself.
I would have been with you a few years ago. Now that they’re buying out TSMC production and designing their own CPUs I’m not so sure anymore. I can’t go back to a daily Windows device after using Silicon.
No one’s telling you to go to windows. He’s saying there’s no reason to charge those prices for ram / that weight is no excuse for Apple to not include those features.
There’s some mad cognitive dissonance going on in this subreddit. You can be in favor of Apple Silicon and still disagree about their business practices.
Oh, yeah, and the weight of the 2280 sticks themselves is like 7g. That’s 0.007kg, so it basically wouldn’t even register on a weight scale.
For memory, the excuse is LPDDR5 which has to be soldered.
But for storage, there’s no excuse, except that they started soldering before 2280 NVME became mainstream, so initially Apple’s storage was way faster than the older non-NVME sticks, but that time has long gone.
I think EU ought to create legislation to combat this digital waste and monopolistic pricing. If the computer retails at or above 1k and weighs above 1kg, it has to have removable storage support via NVME 2230, 2242 or 2280. Apple would probably be the only one that’s affected by such rules, and it’s be dubbed MacBook tax.