I don't think it will do, because factory memory isn't necessarily any better than a replacement. It's not necessarily any worse, either, but there are very commonly cheaper and faster parts available towards the end of a memory product group's lifecycle.

I bought a Google TV because Roku gave up their only advantage, not showing ads on the home screen. Therefore there was no reason to get Roku when Google TVs have orders of magnitude more available apps. I don't understand why anyone would buy a Roku any more given that.

Trains historically used a diesel-electric powertrain only because you can't make a transmission strong enough to do the job, and if you could, it would probably be even more lossy.

Modern trains can be hybrids, they use inverter drive systems.

Nuclear power was sold with the lie "too cheap to meter" in the first place, that's literally where that saying comes from.

It was a lie then, and it's a lie now.

"One of the two is not currently engaging in genocide against a religious minority population, after all."

That is exactly what funding the holocaust in Gaza is. To the letter.

"The "Pro-Palestinian" protesters always seem to come with significant numbers of "kill Jews" protesters."

It's literally in the news right now that the guy who shouted kill Jews in the middle of one of these protests is a Jew who was doing a homegrown false flag.

"UN comments on The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights say "In accordance with article 20 of the Covenant, peaceful assemblies may not be used for propaganda for war (art. 20 (1)),"

Anti-war propaganda is the opposite of that.

"or for advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence (art. 20 (2))."

Again, this is protesting AGAINST those things.

You are literally claiming the opposite of what is happening.

You have gone full newspeak. Never go full newspeak.

Wait, you believe what Russia says about Ukraine? Everything else they have said about it has been a lie, why would you Believe this?

Used Apple products less than 6 months old usually retain 85% of their retail value, so selling for close to half of retail, especially for something where an older model is not available yet, is really stunning. This was supposed to be a flagship "everyone has got to have one" product that was going to sell out, and sell for more than retail on the secondary market. By apple standards somebody is going to lose their job over this.

You don't do it so nobody does it, what a simple world you live in.

I have upgraded the memory and disk of nearly every laptop I have ever owned. On some, I only upgraded one or the other, but they all got upgrades.

Just because you want to discard every laptop while it could still do useful work, that doesn't mean all of us are so wasteful.

A big part of apple hardware resale values used to be that the hardware was still good and you could upgrade the ram and disk to keep it useful, so buying a used Macintosh was viable. This in turn justified part of the initial sale price.

Now the machines can't be upgraded, so if they don't have the high end spec initially they won't have resale value. And anyone who buys one anyway because they want the shiny and the logo will only have the experience that either it won't run new software if not upgraded to the new OS, or will run poorly if it was because there's not enough resources.

This is a short sighted move by Apple, and they don't even have to do it because they are sitting on piles of money. They are selling out their future for profits they don't need today...

I didn't have that shirt but I did have the one with DeCSS on it and I flew while wearing it several times... In and out of Texas, I might add.

So my laptop has soldered RAM, no cooling fans, less than three pounds -- and costs less than a single RAM stick (out of 8) in the desktop I ssh into.

It's a Pinebook Pro from 2019; I don't see any need to upgrade it as it's adequate for client tasks. Unless it breaks beyond repair, I'd rather upgrade the big box.

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We can make whatever we want. We don't want to make all of those things. I think that's a mistake personally, but it's the direction we have decided the economy will go. There's more profit to be made by having production occur where there's no meaningful restrictions on pollution, as they can all be bypassed by bribery.

Bro, we had handheld 486 mini PCs back when the 486 was still a current chip. IBM was making mini low power 486 chips and they showed up in a variety of machines including the Dauphin pen-based line. This is something from literally what, 30 years ago? You are an entire generation out of date here.

2038 hunched in the corner, rubbing its bony little hands in anticipation...