Re: I Deleted Nemo :-)

On 11/14/24 2:31 AM, RonB wrote:

On 2024-11-13, Lawrence D'Oliveiro <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Wed, 13 Nov 2024 14:30:04 -0000 (UTC), candycanearter07 wrote:
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[Apple’s] pricing model is still very frustrating.

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I don’t see why. Nobody is forcing you to buy their products.

 Which completely misses the point. It's obviously frustrating to
candycanearter07 because he would like to buy a Mac with a reasonable
amount of RAM at a reasonable price. Or at least have the option to add more
RAM at a later date.

Sure, but architecture design decisions change with the times.  RAM modularity was the choice ~50 years when RAM was relatively expensive.
Today, Apple's M- architecture employs a unified memory configuration. The tight integration significantly improves performance, but the trade-off is that it isn't "old school" modular anymore.  I guess that if you really wanted a RAM upgrade, you could swap out the whole CPU package.

Greed short circuits the brain.

There are some pricing decisions that Apple chooses which appear out of line with the PC market (this now makes three people complaining about Apple's high costs in just this thread), but there's also higher performance with them, so the performance benefits of their design decisions are contextually relevant and need to be acknowledged too.
-hh