Tangential, but ironically the only used laptops you can buy right now that haven’t been gutted for RAM and NVME are macbooks and similar that have everything soldered onto the motherboard.
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brucethemoose@lemmy.world 5 weeks agoThe good thing is that we have a few giants with vested interests in resisting that. PC OEMs like Dell and HP, Clevo, Intel/AMD who still have huge consumer sales, and the big one:
Apple.
Apple is all-in on personal compute, and they have the muscle to resist the anticompetitive plays, hopefully.
ebolapie@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Nanowith@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Apple can make Chrome book equivalents, they want you to rent compute power not computers.
Natively you’d be able to run VLC on a good day if you’re lucky, but everything else will be online with a subscription attached.
brucethemoose@lemmy.world 5 weeks ago
Apple likes being able to distribute apps and have users pay subscriptions for them locally (with a cut to Apple). This is what they already do, and its why iPhones are so powerful (other than meager RAM capacity).