@jextxadore You just reminded me that I need to stop at the liquor store on the way home. Thanks.
Bought my first USB memory stick, a 256MB one, for around 80.00usd.
Just now bought 10 8GB sticks for roughly 25.00usd. (For OS installation and recovery purposes mostly)
I love progress.
@jussipekonen Just got done having a similar conversation with someone. We met on LiveJournal in 2001. Seventeen years ago. Time indeed flies.
@matigo I'd be content with upgradable RAM and hard rive replacement that doesn't;t involve heat guns and special tools. Mine has been running nearly constantly since 2012 with zero problems. Cannot complain.
@streakmachine In my not so humble opinion, it is an almost perfect form factor. Small, sturdy, upgradable (until recently), respectably powerful (until recently), nearly silent and quite handsome to boot.
@matigo Even so, it'd be an upgrade. Knowing Apple though, they will diddle with other things and ruin the form factor. "It' even THINNER because we removed holes in the back!". Something.
Leave it to them to make a perfect form factor for server farms and developers like me and screw it up in an effort to be artsy fartsy.
@streakmachine They about had the perfect development/admin machine. Love mine to distraction. Would upgrade in a heartbeat and buy another one for the office if they'd only put back what they took away.
PLEASE bring back the quad core i7 variant. PLEASE