In what ways are Macs not upgradeable?
I upgraded the processor on my previous Mac (a beige G3 desktop)
three times. I added memory, swapped in new video cards, added a new
internal hard drives, added FireWire/USB support, a new optical
drive, a new sound card. If I'd wanted to, I could have added a new
hard drive controller.
Looking at current machines, the Mac Pro is every bit as upgradeable
as any WinTel box. The Intel chips Apple has been using are socket-
compatible, which makes upgrading the processor even easier than
before. It's also much easier to *open* the Mac Pro case than it is
to open most PC cases (no tools required), and the hard drives are
even on removable sleds that slide out and click back into place (no
cables needed).
The upgrade options for notebooks are limited, period -- but the
MacBook and MacBook Pro have the most easily accessible hard drives
of any notebook computer.
Granted iMacs and Mac minis are harder to upgrade (except for
memory), but these are, consumer-level machines, targeted at an
audience that does not typically upgrade their computers.
Macs also do not depreciate nearly as fast as PCs, which means it's
often more economical to sell the used machine and buy a new one
rather than upgrading the old one.
Can we please put the kibosh on these pointless platform wars?
Especially when the arguments are so ill-informed.
- Darcy
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On 11 Oct 2006, at 5:58 PM, John T Sylvanis wrote:
Not only that, but when the MAC becomes obsolete you can throw it away
because upgrading is a pathetic endeavor at best, if at all possible.
Wintel is easily upgradable hardware as well as software wise. Too bad
that Apple has not liberalized its platform so that people can take to
building standard Mac computers. It happened in the nineties that they
did for awhile and when some East Asian cos produced much cheaper
versions, Apple promptly discontinued the franchises. In this way a
great
number of its partisans are shortchanged, and it is why I completely
renounced Apple as a possible working platform.
John.
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