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Why are you buying an Apple product if you're worried about affordability?
They're probably not buying but making fun of it. Which is the best approach, probably.
I'm making fun of it, you're right.
And, apple deserves easily 10x the mockery they get for these nonsense decisions.
Ram shouldn't soldered. But, if it has to be, it should be astronomically more than needed today. 8GB systems were insufficient in 2006, and unified memory controllers weren't the issue. My desktop has 64Gb of RAM and I can fully max that out effortlessly.
That's what gets me. Since you can't add more RAM or storage it's just so insulting to have an $1800 laptop with so little. If I wanted 24GB of RAM and 2TB of storage I'd be looking at $2600.
I remember looking at phones in the past and being blown away by 128GB of storage and 4GB of RAM because that was way more than I had in way more expensive desktops just a few years prior. It's so weird seeing a current phone shaft you less on memory/storage than a laptop.
Yeah, that's what finally tuned me from an Apple everything to Linux/Windows/Android/whatever works. Used to be standard, but the mac with the processor and screen you need, buy Ram and harddrive elsewhere and install right away. The old G5s with that huge case literally made it a selling point how use upgradable it was. iPod changed everything.
I used exclusively Macs and iPhones till the early 2010's. I had the original iMac and I eventually moved to a G4 and an intel iMac. That last iMac was such a pile of overpriced crap I killed two HDDs, the RAM, and the GPU. I went from knowing nothing but their ecosystem to never touching it in a year and I haven't gone back.
As ridiculous all these specs are, 8GB was enough for a graphic designers laptop in 2006, common.