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nachopatoday at 4:48 PM1 replyview on HN

My point was that soldered RAM and lack of upgradeable components didn't inspire much of a backlash back then. It led to Apple dominating the higher end of the consumer laptop market.


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pjmlptoday at 5:11 PM

Which was already the way on 8 and 16 bit home computers, for the most part if you wanted an upgrade you would buy the newer model.

The exception being PC clones.