nolamacguy

englishmike0 said:

sog35 said:

Thanks alot Apple.

Now you are FREELY giving your design secrets.

I mean seriously WTF.

This is like Coca Cola making a book with the secret receipe

Apple has become a caricature of its proud former past.

OMG!!! 

How are they giving any secrets away? All the products have or are in production. 

Idiot! 

titantiger said:

macxpress said:

titantiger said:

fallenjt said:

I don't understand the whining behind this. If you can spend $1800+ for a laptop, why skim $200 for the storage? Really don't get it!

Because some people can't spend $1800 for a laptop.  It might be a stretch for them to spend $1499 for one and they can't afford pricey upgrades from Apple.  But they want to remain Apple customers and they buy the best one they can afford.  And if they need more storage later, they used to be able to know they could easily snag a larger drive off Amazon or from OWC for a good price and pop it in themselves in minutes.

Then go buy something else. Nobody is forcing you to buy a new Mac. Its only a matter of time until other manufacturers follow suit with the rare exceptions. 

Why is this always the response from a certain segment of the Mac user base?  I like Macs.  But when Apple does something like this, I prefer that it be something of genuine benefit if they are going to take capabilities away from me.  How is that some radical opinion to hold that warrants a "go buy something else", "take it or leave it" kind of response?  

avon b7 said:

nolamacguy said:

macxpress said:

SpamSandwich said:

This is Pro?

I didn't know Pro meant removable storage? I wonder how many times someone has actually changed their storage later on?

pro enterprise software dev here, let me chime in. never -- never is the number of times I've later changed the storage on my MBPs. or any of my client-issued laptops, for that matter. they have a lifespan and once its expired i or they replace it. it's that simple.

Let me counter that with the fact that I have upgraded the internal storage on every MBP that my family has had. As for the lifespan, it is until they fail but some get requalified as secondary machines when we get a new one so a user could have two active machines at once.

There is a healthy aftermarket trade for upgrades to some machines.

Am I right in thinking that, should these soldered on drives suffer some kind of failure, the entire motherboard will need replacing?

titantiger said:

sflocal said:

titantiger said:

Dear Apple,

Stop doing this shit.  No one likes it.  It's of zero benefit to your customers.  We don't care if it allows the laptop to be two microns thinner or a tenth of a gram lighter.  Two things should always be user upgradeable:  RAM and a hard drive.  If the motherboard or some power port is hard to access and replace, so be it.  Most people will never touch those things.  But if my hard drive craps out or the RAM goes blinky, I should be able to pop open a case, pull the bad part out and snap the good one in.  

I love Apple products, but this shit is getting old.

Waahhh.... 

It's a non-issue for just about everyone.  The fact that you feel progress means denying you a rarely-used ability is of zero consequence for just about everyone else.

Go cry elsewhere.  This is a solid update, removes a known failure-point, and uses the fastest SSD drives around.  Get lost.

Then you should be able to easily tell me not only how often these "failure points" actually fail and how much faster the drive is in this configuration over one that is removable.

blastdoor said:

nolamacguy said:

yeah right. two 5.5" models, but with different screen tech? not gonna happen. apple doesnt toss up differences like these expecting the customer to decide which is better. they instead decide which is better and present it to the customer. 

this dude may have access to supply chain leakers, but he has no idea how apple rolls. 

I definitely agree that it shouldn't happen. 

But these days a lot of things that shouldn't happen seem to go ahead and happen anyway.