1. Because you can't upgrade the RAM afterwards. People like to have removable RAM so they can upgrade.
2. Apple have always shafted people on the price of extra RAM.
3. Its just another way of forcing/inciting their customers into buying a future macbook with more RAM, because they can't upgrade.
all these points are related to:
Apples profit strategy (which in my post i said was fine to question).
Yet, i also think there would be benefits related to this issue in both the manufacturing process and overall product stability and performance that you are failing to acknowledge. Short sightedness can be cured with glasses.
You can never have too much RAM.
More RAM = Less Paging to the HDD or SSD = much faster performance.
i never said RAM was bad!?
And as you'll agree, macs are said to be "better" for Movie Editing and other RAM intensive multimedia applications.
The kind of users they attract will want as much RAM as possible.
i never said people wouldn't want more RAM, just that the sacrifices for the end user made in easily replaceable RAM, may be outweighed by benefits, and some of these may well be related to profit.
I find it even more amusing when mac whores question people questioning their design choices.
Why should we stay silent when we see a limitation in the design?
are you really descending to name calling already? so early?
my, how moral standards have fallen. I blame the euro.
but yes, i am surprised when people question design choices by Apple.
Their track record in both product design and product engineering may point to the reason why it may be foolish to think that "you know better". Of course, as always, its all subjective: well apart from their overall levels of success Apple has obtained within what is arguably one of the fiercely competitive industries on the planet.
as as regards the RAM failure point - this may be valid, but when you look at their customer satisfaction/orientated/service reliability business model entailing designated Apple repair centers/shops: it actually makes a lot of sense.
i will, of course, concede that it will cost you more to get an Apple product fixed than any other, but this is related to their profit strategy, which is fair game for disapproval, in my opinion.
