racketboy wrote:
Just for upgrading or replacing a defective. Say, for my iMac, I've upgraded the drive. Didn't want to have to have an external hooked up to my iMac all the time.
I don't care about upgrading since 512GB is plenty and reasonably priced and you can always expand via external storage. My main worry was that if the storage dies thats it. System is dead. but then I thought we have a good decade of smartphones/tablets that use SSDs and I have yet to hear of someone who had his device with a failed SSD. I am not sure if it works different on PCs.
NOTE: Woah! I just checked Amazon and 1TB SSDs are sub-$100. This is HDD prices here. Am I missing something?
benderx wrote:The only thing different now its harder to upgrade component parts. I Also Wish the graphics card would push it higher than be behind.
TBF things on Windows machines seem to be going this way too unless you build your own tower or something. Given how Apple invested heavily in CPU performance, I am only guessing a huge advancement to GPUs is coming.
I don't understand Apple, for years they neglected the Mac and concentrated on their gold laying duck the iPhone+iOS. Now suddenly out of the blue "ta-daa!" our first desktop-grade CPU, the most advanced jump in the last decade or 2 custom made specifically for our Mac lineup out performs "Insert CPU manufacturer name here" and on RISC architecture. *All software works and compatible.