[drinchev]

Mine is 2011 i7 2.8Ghz. I upgraded it with 16 Gigs RAM & Samsung SSD. It's simply amazing.

I'm really sad that those new models are not-upgradable. I was looking for a new laptop ( because my battery is giving up ) and I'm disappointed that Apple is soldering the RAM.

I hope if there are new MacBook Pro's they will also upgrade friendly.

[toyg]

Regarding RAM, with laptops, you're often restricted by what the chipset will actually support, and that's the case for MBPs (still 16 GB as far as I know). Soldering or no soldering, that's the real problem.

The actual bitch is soldered battery. Mine (2012 MBPr) is still giving me two to three hours, depending on workload (and sticking to Safari for browsing, which makes a massive difference in power consumption), but a replacement would make me more comfortable. I can't imagine what Apple would make me pay for that.

A secondary annoyance is the proprietary SSD interface, which dramatically restricts the choice of hd vendors (for my model, I think the total number of vendors is still 1; I believe a couple of other vendors do support more recent models). I currently live in fear of this disk giving up the ghost before Apple will actually release a new MBP worth buying.