I remember in 2007, buying my first MacBook. It came with an enormous 2gb of RAM. I asked about upgrading it. The guy leaned in conspiratorially and told me that Apple’s RAM upgrades were a rip-off, and that I’d be better of buying it elsewhere. So I did, for half of what Apple were asking.

This is a grift that Apple have had for far too long, and there’s a part of me that’s convinced that their move to soldered RAM was to stop people upgrading after the fact more than it was about SOC efficiencies.

  • TheYang@lemmy.world
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    3 hours ago

    Tl;dw Default config is 16gb ram, 256gb ssd
    32gb ram is 450$ upgrade, 2tb ssd is 800$ Amazon prices are 120-150$ for 64gb ram or 2tb nvme ssd

    So maxing out both costs 1250 for a ~300$ (retail) upgrade, if that were possible.

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      It might be possible. The mini uses socketed ram, though the connector is revoltingly proprietary.