Naturally the price for the cheapest model will also be going to up several orders of magnitude more than the cost of materials, labor, and healthy profit margin to account for that as well I'm sure.
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In 1999, the iBook was US$1599 (equivalent to $2925 in 2023) (source).
The 2010 13" Air was $1299 (more in today's $) (source).
The current 13" M3 Air is $1099 (source).
So yeah, they may well raise prices, but the cost of Apple's entry-level hardware has decreased in absolute terms over the years, and has decreased substantially if inflation is taken into account. Not to say the margins aren't higher (no idea about that), but it's interesting.
Yeah it's when you need a reasonable amount of RAM or disk that they really bend you over.
Has anyone ever successfully de-soldered Apple RAM and replaced it?
Pretty sure it is baked in as part of the SOC, not soldered on after the fact?
I think it's proprietary ram as well so you can't just get something off the market and solder it on. It has to be their ram or it won't work.
Isn't the RAM inside the actual SoC with the Apple Silicon line? I haven't really opened any of 'em up.
As for older Macs - sure, I know someone who replaced 8 gigs with 16 on either an Air or Pro model that had 16 available as an option but was shipped with 8. It's just something you do when you have way too many Mac boards lying around at work and your bosses say you can't get a new work laptop.
dosdude on YouTube I think has done this
and maximum since you probably won't be able to upgrade it since silicon doesn't allow upgrades
Yeh can upgrade them at purchase. From 256gb storage to 512gb will only cost you one kidney.
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I always thought 8gb was a fine amount for daily use if you never did anything too heavy, are apps really that ram intense now?
Imagine how far you can go on 8GB of RAM if every piece of software were still well optimized and free of bloat.
Recently I downloaded Chrome for some testing that I wanted to let separate from my Firefox browser. After a while I realized my computer was always getting hot every time I opened chrome. I took a look at the system monitor: chrome was using 30% of of my CPU power to play a single YouTube video in the background. What the fuck? I ended up switching the testing environment over the libreWolf and CPU load went down to only 10%.
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