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Some of us do care. We care about paying more for overpriced RAM upfront because we cannot upgrade later. We care that we have to leave our laptop with Apple for long periods of time to do repairs of any kind (do they repair? Probably replace). We also care about the environment. Shiny is nice, but shiny comes at a cost way above the dollar sales ticket.

Still. Some don't care.

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Then do not by a BMW - buy a Ford.

[myrandomcomment]

Nice, down voted for speaking the truth. Let me try again with a bit more detail.

Look, if you do not like a product then do not buy it. That is the way it works. Apple makes higher priced higher quality kit and they charge for it. If you are not willing to pay for that then buy something else. If the world agrees with you then they will start to loose sales and change the thing that bugged you. I for one have no issues paying for the level of quality and service I get from Apple. In the life time of the device I buy that extra 10% just does not really matter.

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Agree with you up a point. But I don't think this is a BMW/Ford issue.

I do think that glued in memory is a dumb thing. Memory is almost like a consumable and prices tend to vary dramatically within the service life of a laptop. Bigger chips come out, prices drop, etc. If 1% of the population is capable of doing a trackpad or screen replacement, 15% are capable of doing a ram upgrade.

Also your needs change. I never did video editing, ever -- then we had a baby. That new need drove me to upgrade my 2008 iMac, as it just didn't have the juice. Memory is different, there are lots of elegant ways to approach that problem without compromising the design aesthetic -- in fact Apple has done this with other computers.

Saying "buy a Ford" isn't a useful response. Apple is the sole owner of the Mac OS platform. I can buy an HP laptop, but I miss out on the value that the platform brings -- I don't want Windows or Linux.