Re: Mac pro got an update

From	Lewis <g.kreme@gmail.com.dontsendmecopies>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.system
Subject	Re: Mac pro got an update
Date	2017-04-07 03:32 +0000
Organization	Miskatonic U
Message-ID	<slrnoee27e.1sgp.g.kreme@snow.local> (permalink)
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In message <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.

>> My complaint about the trend in Apple desktops is less that you can't
>> *upgrade* the components to bigger/better/faster but that you can't
>> easily *replace* components, most notably drives, that tend to die
>> before the machine becomes hopelessly obsolete. This is especially
>> important in an era in which, as you pointed out, the rate of
>> obsolescence has slowed down. 

> ssds are *extremely* reliable and will greatly outlast the computer
> they're in. some ssds have as much as a *ten* year warranty. 

> and then there's performance. a removable ssd is almost certainly going
> to be slower than one that's integrated into the logic board.

They can use PCIe SSDs without soldering them in. But yeah, SATA is way
slow compared to the PCIe drives. (Max 600MBs vs 3GB/s).


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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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