This is by design and a pure profit driven - business decision. The new Mac Mini M1 has no upgrade-ability / serviceability of the hard drive nor the RAM. Microsoft is far from perfect - most of the the surface pro line still holds 0-1/10 ifixit scores to this day, but it is just an example that shows a change is easily possible.Īpple just moves in this direction of soldering everything because of their OS monopoly and a focus on profits, opposed to a focus on the end users comfort and productivity (a soldered non servicable harddrive is a productivity nightmare). So it is definitely possible to move in the direction of more repair-ability and upgrade-ability. Still far from perfect at least they made the 'jump' from an ifixit score of 0/10 to 5/10. Surprisingly enough they were able to pack the recent line of Surface Book 3s (15 inch model) together even thinner and at the same time make it much simpler to upgrade and service defect parts. Microsoft used to have everything soldered in their Surface Book line and people were saying - it needs to be done, because soldering on RAM and the hard-drive keeps the system small. It also contradicts usability and user friendliness, because a Mac hard-drive that can not be simply removed from a failing logic-board to extract the data, is unnecessarily user unfriendly to service. This in turn contradicts their stance on being environmentally friendly, because a Mac Mini with a broken SSD can not be repaired anymore.

But it is pretty clear, that Apple is making repair-ability and upgrade-ability extra hard, not because it is such a clever and smart thing to do or technically it needs to be done, but to push their high prices on higher RAM and SSD options, WHEN you buy a Mac. Nobody said, it is a 'conspiracy' - it is purely a business decision that puts Apples supposedly higher profits ahead of the users convenience and right to repair.

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