Alex_V

sflocal said:

This at the minimum should support Thunderbolt3.  It’s junk status in my book.  Why cripple a fast NVMe drive at 10gb/s?

Get the product out the door fast. Be the first to market with a size and finish to match the new Mac. Test the market with standard components. If that succeeds, then you can bring out the delux and super delux versions. 

Reciprocity is a feature of international relations. That’s why tariffs lead to “trade wars”. When the US sets tariffs on Chinese goods, China will reciprocate with tariffs on US goods, aiming them at sectors that do the most harm to the US. For example, pork or rice farmers. Cue collapsing US exports, and the government will be forced to pay subsidies to placate the angry farmers. Plus your import tax revenues (on goods whose consumption you’ve just suppressed) will never cover your export losses. Don’t believe me? It happened the last time. 

Stabitha_Christie said:

What you are proposing is that business become an arm of the state or, put another way, Communism. 

That word. I don’t think it means what you think it means. 

There ought to be a service that teams-up every senior with a gen-Z. Whenever the old-timer gets a call from a “bank” or Apple “security,” the call is automatically transferred to the gen-Zer, who listens to the pitch, and then tells the caller to p*ss off, if it’s a scam. 

Once Apple began to build SOCs with soldered RAM and SSDs, I suspect that it made logistics and warehousing that much more complicated. It means that Apple must predict how many PCs of each specification it must manufacture prior to the machines being purchased, and the entire logistics and warehousing chain (including stores) must be stocked with the different permutations of machines. Some models are special order, but its a trade off as waiting lists lose customers. Holding all that stock is expensive. And it is the downside of soldered RAM and CCDs, that have obvious performance upsides. Therefore, I guess that if Apple can offer upgradable storage in some of their PCs (like the Mac Mini), it will remove one permutation and allow them to hold stock in a warehouse and upgrade the SSD storage in an individual machine as the order comes in. If they also allow users to upgrade storage later through authorised service centres, that might mitigate the criticism they’re getting for their pricing. (Although I read somewhere that their prices are comparable to other OEMs.)