Thread: Google's Android is Eating Apple's Lunch
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Old 11-28-2012, 05:00 PM   #246
fjtorres
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[i]"Want to upgrade that 'Retina' MacBook Pro? Tough luck"

"Summary: iFixit have given the new MacBook Pro a reparability score of 1 out of ten, calling it "virtually non-upgradeable".
Adrian Kingsley-Hughes
Soldered RAM? Ouch.
Some of those design features remind me of the old single-board home computers of the 80's (Atari, Commodore 64, etc).
Hackers eventually figured out how to upgrade those (stacking chips and soldering jumper wires) but I doubt those kinds of tricks will work with current tech.

That said, TVs, receivers, and DVRs aren't upgradeable and that doesn't hurt sales. What might hurt is repairability.

I just hope this doesn't spillover to the wintel side...
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