“Starting at” is the Biggest Lie in Tech (RAM and storage upgrade costs)

@octalfudge · edit-2 2 years ago

“Starting at” is the Biggest Lie in Tech (RAM and storage upgrade costs)

@[email protected] · 2 years ago

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@ANIMATEK · 2 years ago

Drop the tinfoil hat, all that shit is true.

@bigdog_00 · 2 years ago

I agree. If you want super fast storage, totally fine! Just don’t remove the option to expand later.

@[email protected] · 2 years ago

The bootlickers over at r/apple have been defending this for years

@[email protected] · 2 years ago

Yep, people were able to upgrade their old macbooks 2011 with 16 gigs of ram and pop in a SSD which led delaying it ending up in a landfill sooner. Imagine if those old Macbooks had gone with the philosophy of non upgradeable storage and ram like the current shift of modern day tech.

https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7767823

Joey · edit-2 2 years ago

A bit unrelated, but does anyone know what screensaver is running on the MacBook next to Linus? It looks pretty cool.

@mingistech · edit-2 2 years ago

It’s from Apple retail. I’ve seen that video ripped from the demo app and posted online a few times over the years. I have it somewhere. If I can locate it I’ll share a Dropbox link.

Joey · 2 years ago

Oh that would be very nice if you can.

Let’s see if the SaveHollywood screensaver is still working so I can play that video as a screensaver (http://s.sudre.free.fr/Software/SaveHollywood/about.html)