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MacBook Pro Diary: I’ve come to terms with the fact that it’s the end of the line for upgradable MacBooks

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<p>I’ve always upgraded my MacBooks. Usually, I would spec out my machine with the best processor and GPU, and couple that to the bare-bones RAM and drive, then upgrade those components myself to avoid the Apple premium. Sometimes I’d upgrade more than once during a machine’s lifetime.</p>
<p>My Late 2011 17-inch MacBook Pro, for example, was bought with 8GB RAM and a 750GB hard drive. I immediately upgraded the RAM to 16GB – a ten-minute task – and swapped out both the hard drive and optical drive for two 1TB hard drives. Later on, when SSD prices fell to more sensible levels, I swapped out the spinning metal drives for a couple of 1TB SSDs. In this way, the 17-inch machine I was reluctant to give up has remained remarkably usable even five years on.</p>
<p>That approach is no longer an option. The RAM has long been soldered on in MacBooks, and the past couple of days confirmed what I suspected about the new <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/macbook-pro/" target="_blank">MacBook Pro[/url] with Touch Bar when I <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2016/10/28/macbook-pro-diary-keynote-impressions/" target="_blank">maxed-out my order[/url]: the SSD, too, is <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2016/11/16/apple-13-inch-macbook-pro-with-touch-bar-teardown-reveals-speaker-grilles-are-only-cosmetic-touch-bar-is-hard-to-replace/" target="_blank">soldered on[/url] and thus <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2016/11/15/2016-macbook-pro-non-removable-ssd-small-batteries/" target="_blank">non-upgradable[/url] …</p>
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