TechCrunch: PSA: You Won’t Be Able To Upgrade The New Mac Mini’s RAM Yourself

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If you’ve ever owned a Mac Mini, there’s something you should probably know about the recently-announced latest generation: the RAM? It’s soldered to the board now. In other words, you won’t be able to upgrade it yourself. Past generations of Mac Minis allowed the user to crack open the case and install RAM they’d sourced themselves (generally at a price quite a… Read More

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[Viktor]

Welcome to the new Mac hardware. Pretty much everything is soldered to the logic board. Anyways I've had nothing but trouble with Mac Minis. They can't even sync 8-10 iPads at the same time without beachballing.

 

[Z A C K]

Love my Mac Mini, but this is dumb.

 

[Plainview]

Love my Mac Mini, but this is dumb.

It renders it a very niche product. Where people could actually use them as servers, now, it's not worth it. There are better options. It's basically Apple's email, internet, Facebook machine.

 

[Kvally]

Sucks...but...don't like it, don't buy it. Prolly will still sell.

 

[starseeker]

Sorry, but why would you buy a mac mini? Whats the selling point?

 

[A7]

Why would anyone want to upgrade from their current Mac Mini's to this gimped model for?

Love my Mac Mini, but this is dumb.

Same, I love mine too, but this new one sounds terribad.