Subj : Re: Atari 400; meh.
To   : Spectre
From : Nightfox
Date : Tue Aug 01 2023 08:49:42

  Re: Re: Atari 400; meh.
  By: Spectre to Nightfox on Tue Aug 01 2023 08:16 am

 Ni>> I never was much of an Apple user, but in 2012 I had bought a MacBook Pro
 Ni>> (a late 2011 model, the last of the 17" version and last with an optical

 Sp> I'll be the last person to disagree, ever since it became Jobbies and post
 Sp> jobbies...its just become the 80's MS of the new millenium.  However its
 Sp> completely at odds from where it started... Its ancient history, but the
 Sp> II+ used nothing but off the shelf parts.  It also came with full specs
 Sp> and schematics to make it do whatever you wanted... They need a bit of
 Sp> that back... somewhere along the way they traded any open thought for this
 Sp> shitstorm they have now.

Yeah, I've heard about that.  Even in the late 90s to mid-late 2000s, their Mac towers (and some horizontal desktop models) were fairly easy to open and replace components inside.  Since they discontinued the G5 Mac Pro, it seems they started locking things down a lot more and making things more difficult to upgrade.

Nightfox
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