[darkandbrooding]

I think it's a terrible, terrible design. I was working on a new Retina Powerbook last week, and I pushed the power key within my first ten minutes. It should not be trivially easy to bring your productivity to a screeching halt.

The soldered RAM is annoying - I'm OK with my computer being a complex tool, not an appliance. The excuse of the soldered RAM to up-sell if you want 16 GB of memory is insulting. The power button is idiotic. Apple wants me to pay three grand for a laptop that can be turned off instantaneously by an overly curious pet?

Really?

Really?

[Bud]

Apple isn't "upselling" you. They're simply charging you for more RAM, and only more RAM, if you want to buy more RAM. They aren't forcing you to upgrade anything else (this actually would count as an upsell); the RAM can be upgraded independently at the time of purchase.

Furthermore, if you want a really thin laptop and you want them to cut weight from the design and you want the design to be extremely tough (and most of us do), one thing you run out of space for pretty quickly is multiple RAM sockets.

I'm frankly ok with paying for the 16 GB now or never.

[madeofpalk]

> the RAM can be upgraded independently at the time of purchase.

FWIW, RAM cannot be upgraded on newer Macbook models, incl. the retina mentioned. The RAM is soldered on.

[rimantas]

  > It should not be trivially easy to bring your productivity
  > to a screeching halt.

Screeching halt? What heppended, your computer just shut down instantly?

[vacri]

RTFA, particularly the second paragraph.