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Old 06-05-2014, 07:38 AM   #8
serr
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Originally Posted by Repetition Compulsion View Post
The new retina MacBook pros are the same way. The ram is integrated and the hard drive is also some sort of integrated chip. I believe you can still actually upgrade the harddrive, it's just expensive as hell. You're stuck with the fan though, and at apples cost for upgrading from the factory that's a tough pill. Those are the two reasons I went with the 13" non retina rather than either of the beefier retina models.
They started calling all the laptops 'pros' a couple years ago. They used to call the more budget and less upgradable machines 'Macbooks'. And those Retina machines are very much Macbooks. They didn't offer any pro laptops last time around (comments were made, eyebrows raised). The mid 2012 are the most recent pro laptops at present.

The hard drive is their mini-pci proprietary SSD. That's actually the desirable part! They're faster than the current SATA SSD's. As soon as they release a 'pro' machine with one of these they'll have my attention again.

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