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Apple is making its recently-released iMacs more easily upgradeable, with retailer OWC confirming the base specification 27-inch 5K iMac can be fitted with up to 64GB of RAM, while an iFixit teardown reveals both the memory and the processor used in the 21.5-inch 4K iMac can be removed and replaced.
[...] an upgradeable iMac is a big shift in direction from Apple. The last 21.5-inch iMac with expandable memory was the 2013 model, while the last to include a modular CPU came in 2012.
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Can anyone remember when the times were not hard, and money not scarce?
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday June 11 2017, @07:28AM
You're absolutely right.
But there's more. When is the last time Apple brought out a Mac Pro in which you could put your own specialty, high end, dedicated card? You really can't do it with the trashcan. The cheesegrater was the last one I remember, although maybe their rackmounts could (I don't think so).
The fanbois bounce up and down and stroke themselves about what a good deal the hardware is if you close one eye, squint with another and pretend that numbers matter more than function, but given how tight Apple is getting with their walled garden, that's starting to become a serious problem. Wait, who'm I kidding? It's been a serious problem and is reaching critical point.
It gets worse. The crap with unilateral deletion of files is absolutely anathema to any media professional (and I've spent days helping restore files from backup that iTunes decided didn't need to exist any more for ... reasons). I know, I know, if you know the secret handshake and you sacrificed a black cock in a chalk circle at midnight on the grave of Steve Jobs's pet cat, it doesn't happen. In the real world it happens to real people.
It gets worse. Serious corporate environment. Mission-critical machines for a company that produces a lot of high end software for Apple (you've heard of them, I guarantee) and an apple in the build cloud goes bad.
"*ringring* Apple here, whassup?"
"Your machine crapped out, we want service."
"Take it to a genius bar."
"You don't understand. We're a big corporation, we build software for you, we have contracts and shit."
"We understand fine. Do you understand fuck you? Take it to a genius bar, we don't give a shit. Have an insanely great day."
I'm starting to understand what happened. Back in the dya when IBM was doing the "We are a SOLUTIONS COMPANY" crap, Steve Jobs realised that the consumer equivalent is a "LIFESTYLE COMPANY" like Starbucks. Starbucks sells shitty coffee, and an image. Apple can do just fine selling shitty computers and software, and an image. Sure, it's nice that you can theoretically buy something that's close to the state of the art (for some definitions) when it comes out (if you like the precise combination that they offer that week) for what happens to be a decent price at that time, but if you hang onto it for six months it's no longer a great deal, and in two years you might as well have bought something half the price three months later, and put the rest into hookers and blow for all the good it does you.