Another boring money post

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Intel had better be worried. Very worried. ARM is gonna take the consumer market out from under them in the next few years if they don't get their PPW (performance per watt) cleaned up.

Nvidia is gonna be a huge player in this. They release the next gen stuff earlier then the opposition, so it's slower than the chips Apple, TI, and others are putting out, but the adoption rate is high due to it's early availability.

http://www.engadget.com/2011/09/20/n...ifth-companio/

[Freak Out]

Right now the only Apple laptop I would consider buying is the 15 inch pro at $2100.....and I still would have to upgrade the fucker. Final price....$3899. Fuck you Apple.

I take it you can still replace drives and ram on the pro yourself or has Apple locked that down as well?

[retailguy]

I take it you can still replace drives and ram on the pro yourself or has Apple locked that down as well?

That depends on who you talk to.

Honestly, ram and hard drives are about the only things you CAN replace on a macbook pro. Probably the only things you don't have to buy from apple. Though I bet if you dug through all the stuff, you'd find licensing agreements with part of the sales price going to apple. Of course, depending on your POV, that's just "good business".

[Zool]

That depends on who you talk to.

Honestly, ram and hard drives are about the only things you CAN replace on a macbook pro. Probably the only things you don't have to buy from apple.

That's also true with almost every laptop on the market. Most have proc's and GPU's right on the motherboard not in a socket. There are very few exceptions to this.

[Freak Out]

That's also true with almost every laptop on the market. Most have proc's and GPU's right on the motherboard not in a socket. There are very few exceptions to this.

I know that.....I just want to know if you can you still remove the back panels on the new Pros and upgrade the ram and drives. I can get great deals on compatible ram and an SSD.

[Freak Out]

Hmmmm...

http://www.macrumors.com/2011/09/15/...rmance-issues/

[Deputy Nutz]

dorks

[Scott Campbell]

APPL produces one thing much better than it's competitors. Fanboys.

[Zool]

I know that.....I just want to know if you can you still remove the back panels on the new Pros and upgrade the ram and drives. I can get great deals on compatible ram and an SSD.

Upgrade Ram

Upgrade Hard Drive

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That depends on who you talk to.

Honestly, ram and hard drives are about the only things you CAN replace on a macbook pro. Probably the only things you don't have to buy from apple. Though I bet if you dug through all the stuff, you'd find licensing agreements with part of the sales price going to apple. Of course, depending on your POV, that's just "good business".

What else can you upgrade on any other laptop????

Batteries I guess, but I would much rather have the long lasting Apple battery than a non-Apple battery. Besides that, replacement is quite reasonable. 80 dollars to have it done.

Freak, what do you need a 4K computer for? That's insane.

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APPL produces one thing much better than it's competitors. Products.

T, FTFY

[Scott Campbell]

T, FTFY

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you the iFan(boy) 5. It's much bigger than last years model, yet noticeably slower. And it's got a new ARM processor that throws a football like a girl.

[MJZiggy]

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you the iFan(boy) 5. It's much bigger than last years model, yet noticeably slower. And it's got a new ARM processor that throws a football like a girl.

Ah shit, Scott!!

[mraynrand]

"I consider myself a Nerd"

[Freak Out]

Upgrade Ram

Upgrade Hard Drive

Thanks....I downloaded the user guide for the 15 pro. Interesting that it says 8 gigs is the maximum amount of memory. WTF Partial?

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Thanks....I downloaded the user guide for the 15 pro. Interesting that it says 8 gigs is the maximum amount of memory. WTF Partial?

Can most standard rigs take 16GB today? In the next year or two, whenever Haswell comes out, I'm gonna build a 8 or 16 core machine with 16GB ram and a super fast SSD. Until then I'm stuck on this moldy overclocked core 2 box.

[retailguy]

What else can you upgrade on any other laptop????

the user experience.

[retailguy]

Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you the iFan(boy) 5. It's much bigger than last years model, yet noticeably slower. And it's got a new ARM processor that throws a football like a girl.

I bought one of those but I had to return it when it injured its shoulder.

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the user experience.

I will assume that's your way of saying masta p is right

[retailguy]

I will assume that's your way of saying masta p is right

you think backwards. You get what you get with the apple. I have the freedom to change it, and I prefer it that way.