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Upgrading an M4 Pro Mac mini's storage for half the price

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Andrew_nenakhov ◴[11 Jul 25 19:03 UTC] No.44535807[source]▶
Non upgradeable storage and ram is ridiculous.

Interestingly, when M4 mac mini went on sale, version with 32GB RAM/1TB drive was priced exactly 2x as 16GB RAM / 512GB drive version. This kinda implies that Apple sells only RAM and storage, and gives away the rest for free.

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1. throwaway31131 ◴[12 Jul 25 05:31 UTC] No.44539568[source]▶
On the one hand, I get you. On the other, I’m just not sure we live in that world anymore for most people.

My daily driver is a base config 16” M1 MacBook Pro from 2021 and I have no inclinations to upgrade at all. Even the battery is still good.

I run CAD, compile and run large C++ projects. Do tons of heavy stuff in matlab. Various visualizations of simulations. My laptop just isn’t the slow thing anymore. I’m sure workloads exists that would push this machine but how many people are actually doing that. (Ok fine, chrome exists)

Even the smaller SSD isn’t an issue for me in practice because iCloud Drive and Box automatically move things I don’t often access off disk freeing local space.

Frankly if smaller memory footprints and smaller SSDs translates to lower base config prices and longer battery life it was the right choice, for me anyway.