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on Monday October 20 2014, @07:30AM
from the ought-to-be-enough-for-anybody dept.
from the ought-to-be-enough-for-anybody dept.
In a recent engadget article, Jon Fingas points out the following:
If you're planning to snag the new Mac mini and load it up with aftermarket memory, you may want to reconsider your strategy. Macminicolo owner Brian Stucki (among others) has discovered that the RAM in Apple's latest tiny desktop isn't upgradable, much as you'd expect with the company's laptops and the 21-inch iMac.
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innovate, v.:
To annoy people.
(Score: 2) by Tork on Tuesday October 21 2014, @12:34AM
What cost?
You mean besides having to take it off the line, solder the RAM in, and ship it individually to somebody's house? Even at the pay-rate you're assuming that's still way more expensive than installing it in-store or having the customer do it. There's also the inventory issue I mentioned that you must have accidentally skipped over.
Working conditions and pay are sooo bad over there that Foxconn had to install a net to catch the workers trying to commit suicide...
You are not well informed.
...to not make fat bank on that $300 RAM.
Two hundred.
And what laptop?
You asked: How is it "justifiable" for a laptop?
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(Score: 2) by urza9814 on Tuesday October 21 2014, @12:57PM
...so if they don't solder the RAM directly to the board...nobody ever has to install it or something?
They've gotta install the RAM at the factory anyway. Whether it's a fixed amount of four different options, it's still the same basic process. Might now take a couple seconds extra per laptop, from somebody making a couple bucks a day, but it saves a minute or two per laptop from somebody making ten or twenty bucks an hour if they were really having them customized at the Apple stores...
But in fact if you look at the sales page for the mac mini...they have four options. These options have differences in RAM -- but also in CPU, battery, display, and storage. They're not giving people more options, they're giving them *fewer*. They have *less* to keep in inventory and less to assemble. You can't throw 8GB of RAM in with the 2.5GHz processor anymore. If you want 8GB of RAM, you're forced to buy the 2.6GHz CPU.
(Score: 2) by Hairyfeet on Wednesday October 22 2014, @01:19AM
Dude where the fuck have YOU been? Would you like a link to the suicide nets, complete with pics? Ask and ye shall receive [dailytech.com]. And regular RAM installs itself...by magic? And are you really gonna honestly try to sell us on them actually taking each individual board and hand soldering in the RAM, a process that is practically designed for automated lines?
If you wanna kiss the Apple booty and try to explain away their douchebag behavior you really need to bring better arguments, yours don't even hold up to the most trivial of examination, sorry. BTW if you wanna pay the Apple premium because you like OSX or the designs or just because? Then please, enjoy them in good health, I wish you nothing but happiness with your purchase. We are all individuals and have our own tastes and I would never try to tell someone they couldn't enjoy different things than I, that's what makes us individuals after all.
But please don't try to justify corporate douchebaggery just because you like the brand, you end up jumping through logic hoops the size of Texas and posting illogical shit that don't pass muster like what you posted. I'm not the only one that noticed either, look at the other post, he caught the same problems in your argument. As I said your argument MIGHT hold water if we were talking about the Air, where the battery is a sliver and every mw counts...we are on the mains dude, none of that argument works here. Just accept that Apple are being dicks and move on, just as I had to accept Balmer was a pathetic CEO and Win 8 was deep fried ass, just because you liked previous products does NOT provide an indicator of future performance and behavior, mmkay?
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(Score: 2) by Tork on Wednesday October 22 2014, @01:54AM
Would you like a link to the suicide nets, complete with pics? Ask and ye shall receive.
When being accused of being mis-informed, consider checking the date on the materials you offer as rebuttal.
And are you really gonna honestly try to sell us on them actually taking each individual board and hand soldering in the RAM, a process that is practically designed for automated lines?
Yep. I mentioned other stuff you ignored, too.
I'm not the only one that noticed either, look at the other post, he caught the same problems in your argument.
Not really, he didn't read my post very carefully. His observations about the fewer configurations of the Mini actually supported my point, he didn't catch that while writing it.
If you wanna kiss the Apple booty...
I'm sorry my experience purchasing Apple laptops is in direct conflict with your agenda. It's a pity though because you're going to walk away from this thread with a swiss-cheese memory of what we talked about, including overlooking that I had actually criticized this approach in the first post I made. Hopefully one day you'll forgive me for not reading your sermon in its entirety.
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