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Long time Apple fan here, and yeah. Ugh. Back in the 1980s/1990s you could pop those suckers open and fiddle to your heart’s content. I loved my last MacBook for many years but once it was obsolete there wasn’t anything I could do with it.
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At some point I decided the 2012 Mac Mini would be my last Apple machine for now. And although it’s not the only reason, being the last mini you can open and upgrade a bit played a part (I added RAM and an SSD while keeping the original HD with a server kit)
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Thanks for mentioning the Marques Brownlee channel. Never heard of him before! 
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You could upgrade machines into the early 2010s. 10 screws and you’re in on the 2010 MBP. My daily driver is a 2009 MacBook Pro. It’s got 8 gigs of RAM, an SSD and I put them there.
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I love working on the older MacBooks. They had great design and engineering. Additionally, you could easily run Linux on them and get another 5+ years of life out of it. Sad they have gone this new route but even sadder they’re selling them like crazy.
Yeah I may be misremembering, but wasn’t it when they made the jump to Retina displays that they started gluing in things like the RAM? My first-gen Intel MacBook (Core 2 Duo) still had discrete components in it.