Re: Mac pro got an update

From	Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Mac pro got an update
Date	2017-04-06 19:28 +0100
Message-ID	<060420171928213361%timstreater@greenbee.net> (permalink)
References	(1 earlier) <PaudnTCwWres5XjFnZ2dnUU7-cOdnZ2d@giganews.com> <1n411sa.17m1qf483epr0N%nmassello@yahoo.com> <58e5cb37$0$23456$b1db1813$7968482@news.astraweb.com> <1n420v1.beso5q162wa4nN%nmassello@yahoo.com> <060420171247529391%nospam@nospam.invalid>

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In article <060420171247529391%nospam@nospam.invalid>, nospam
<nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:

>In article <1n420v1.beso5q162wa4nN%nmassello@yahoo.com>, Neill Massello
><nmassello@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> Well, Macs have never been very hospitable to CPU upgrades, but at least
>> you could replace their hard drives and RAM. Even the early 1990s models
>> with soldered-in RAM usually had a slot or two for additional SIMMs. 
>
>few people bothered to upgrade components (those days are *long* gone),
>so there's no point in offering a feature that won't get used.
>
>soldering memory is more reliable and less expensive to manufacture,
>something people value far more than the possibility of adding memory
>at some future date when they never actually do it.

In recent years I've been buying the bottom-end Mini, then sending it
off to have an SSD and extra memory added. Can't do that with the
current model so been buying the low-end 2012 Mini on ebay.

That's given me a machine that's plenty fast enough for my purposes.

-- 
"... you must remember that if you're trying to propagate a creed of 
 poverty, gentleness and tolerance,  you need a very rich, powerful,
 authoritarian organisation to do it."             - Vice-Pope Eric

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Mac pro got an update JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2017-04-05 15:50 -0400
  Re: Mac pro got an update Krzysztof Mitko <invalid@kmitko.at.list.dot.pl> - 2017-04-05 23:48 +0100
    Re: Mac pro got an update android <here@there.was> - 2017-04-06 04:25 +0200
  Re: Mac pro got an update Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2017-04-05 19:05 -0400
    Re: Mac pro got an update nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2017-04-05 21:24 -0600
      Re: Mac pro got an update nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-05 23:39 -0400
        Re: Mac pro got an update Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2017-04-06 14:30 -0400
      Re: Mac pro got an update JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2017-04-06 00:59 -0400
        Re: Mac pro got an update Doc O'Leary  <droleary@2017usenet1.subsume.com> - 2017-04-06 15:30 +0000
        Re: Mac pro got an update nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2017-04-06 10:13 -0600
          Re: Mac pro got an update nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-06 12:47 -0400
            Re: Mac pro got an update JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2017-04-06 13:12 -0400
            Re: Mac pro got an update Tim Streater <timstreater@greenbee.net> - 2017-04-06 19:28 +0100
            Re: Mac pro got an update Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-04-06 19:25 +0000
            Re: Mac pro got an update Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-04-07 03:32 +0000
            Re: Mac pro got an update Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2017-04-07 09:23 -0400
              Re: Mac pro got an update Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-04-07 14:53 +0000
                Re: Mac pro got an update JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2017-04-07 13:45 -0400
                Re: Mac pro got an update Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-04-07 17:47 +0000
                Re: Mac pro got an update nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2017-04-07 12:27 -0600
                Re: Mac pro got an update nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-07 14:31 -0400
                Re: Mac pro got an update JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2017-04-07 16:23 -0400
                Re: Mac pro got an update Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-04-07 20:34 +0000
                Re: Mac pro got an update nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2017-04-07 16:42 -0600
                Re: Mac pro got an update Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-04-07 23:05 +0000
                Re: Mac pro got an update JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2017-04-07 20:28 -0400
                Re: Mac pro got an update Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-04-08 00:57 +0000
                Re: Mac pro got an update Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-04-08 14:06 +0000
                Re: Mac pro got an update JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2017-04-08 14:05 -0400
                Re: Mac pro got an update nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-08 14:21 -0400
                Re: Mac pro got an update Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-04-08 18:29 +0000
                Re: Mac pro got an update Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-04-09 14:34 +0000
                Re: Mac pro got an update JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2017-04-09 13:52 -0400
                Re: Mac pro got an update Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-04-09 18:27 +0000
                Re: Mac pro got an update nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-07 19:59 -0400
                Re: Mac pro got an update JF Mezei <jfmezei.spamnot@vaxination.ca> - 2017-04-07 20:31 -0400
                Re: Mac pro got an update nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-07 20:38 -0400
                Re: Mac pro got an update Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-04-08 14:10 +0000
                Re: Mac pro got an update nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-04-07 16:36 -0400
                Re: Mac pro got an update Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-04-07 21:33 +0000
                Re: Mac pro got an update Alan Browne <alan.browne@freelunchvideotron.ca> - 2017-04-08 09:35 -0400
  Re: Mac pro got an update Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies> - 2017-04-07 03:24 +0000

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