• @MeanEYE
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      Apple products are opposite of hardware porn. How can you call it as such when their solution for poor choice of solder compound, which resulted in GPU desoldering, was to glue piece of rubber which pushed on the GPU? How can you call it porn, when their SATA cables are constantly failing from 2011 models, constantly? How can you call it hardware porn when Apple cheaps out on single drop of glue to hold touch driver chip not to get broken resulting in Max series of phones massively dying after couple of years of use?

      What you sound like is a victim of great marketing campaign.

        • @MeanEYE
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          21 year ago

          Then I apologize and strongly recommend you take a look at Framework laptop. That thing is truly modular to a point that you can upgrade CPU on a laptop, chose your own ports and repair pretty much everything. And machine comes in a metal body, very thing and lightweight.

    • @[email protected]
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      11 year ago

      I’m an old Linux-head (actually started out developing tools for 10’s of variants of unix - compilation flags providing custom versions). I would love to have my mac mini running linux though, that would be awesome. I don’t think you can yet.

      • Echo Dot
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        11 year ago

        You’d never be able to upgrade it though.

        Don’t they have soldered RAM?

        • @Aceticon
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          The old ones didn’t.

          I actually have one right here sitting in front of me which was used to develop iOS application (as Apple forces you contractually to use Apple machines for, at the very least do the final build of an iOS app to push to their store) and I actually bought a lower specced model and upgraded the memory myself as that was the cheaper option.

          However if I’m not mistaken the model generation after that (or maybe 2 generations) came with soldered memory.

        • @[email protected]
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          11 year ago

          They sure do, and its a complete bastard. Soldered ram and disk.

          My latest laptop has 96GB RAM (I run a lot of VMs) and 4TB SSD. I think I should get the full 5 years out of it.