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Raspberry Pi is intentionally blocking RAM capacity upgrades (www.notebookcheck.net)
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[–] 98 points 1 week ago (6 children)

Their excuse definitely smells like bullshit. It just seems they want to do the Apple thing of making sure they get the money for the upgrade, plus a premium. Except even Apple has a technical reason they don't allow upgrades, which Raspberry Pi doesn't.

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  • [–] 15 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (4 children)

    Nah it’s not technical reasons, it’s just greed and form over function, the new MacBook Neo proves that if Apple wanted to they can make a user repairable and even upgradable laptop, they don’t because the EU hasn’t forced them yet

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  • [–] 0 points 1 week ago (3 children)

    How does the new MacBook prove that? The way their processors are made it’s impossible to upgrade RAM after the fact.

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago (2 children)

    That was a typo I meant the new MacBook Neo laptop

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  • [–] 0 points 1 week ago (1 child)

    Yeah I assumed that’s what you meant. That machine still uses an SoC with embedded ram. It’s not possible to upgrade it.

    It’s more repairable than previous designs, which is great, but that’s different than being upgradable.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 week ago*

    Yeah and it’s a measly 8 gb of ram, but they are stuck with that because of reusing the A18 SoC from the iPhones which sucks but I’m glad it forced other budget thin and light laptop manufacturers in that segment to wake up and compete

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