• floofloof@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    Their excuse definitely smells like bullshit. It just seems they want to do the Apple thing of making sure they get the money for the upgrade, plus a premium. Except even Apple has a technical reason they don’t allow upgrades, which Raspberry Pi doesn’t.

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      6 hours ago

      Nah it’s not technical reasons, it’s just greed and form over function, the new MacBook Neo proves that if Apple wanted to they can make a user repairable and even upgradable laptop, they don’t because the EU hasn’t forced them yet

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        1 day ago

        How does the new MacBook prove that? The way their processors are made it’s impossible to upgrade RAM after the fact.

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            5 hours ago

            Yeah I assumed that’s what you meant. That machine still uses an SoC with embedded ram. It’s not possible to upgrade it.

            It’s more repairable than previous designs, which is great, but that’s different than being upgradable.