Poll: Have you upgraded your recent computer purchases?

[OWC Jamie]

PeterW wrote:
I think if you keep beating that poor dead horse any further, the ASPCA is going to have to get involved. Enough is enough already.

LOL

just this morning I told the parking lot stripe I should be able to swap out components in my phone more readily

[GuyGene]

I'll say it again: it's the system, not the hardware that has kept me with Macs since '86.

[Acer]

I chose "non-upgradeable." OWC tells me my MBPr is in fact upgradable, but with all due respect to our gracious hosts, I don't have the coin they are asking.

[GuyGene]

Me too, Acer! Whew, those SSDs are high dollarmiley-shocked003:

[JoeH]

I bought a 13" 2012 MacBook Pro as a refurb last year, so far have not upgraded any internal components. However I will probably upgrade the RAM from the 8 GB installed to 16 at some time, the mix of apps used is occasionally bumping into memory limits. As the price of SSD's has come down, replacing the drive s also looking more attractive.

[jdc]

You should have done less than 5 years.

In the last 25 years, doing consulting for many other non techy designers/printers/ad agencies/friends/family -- JoeH's story is the most common by far.

I got this XXXX and have never upgraded it, and it runs great.

But a $120 500 GB SSD and 15 minutes of installation would make JoeH MBP run way, way smoother, without any ram upgrade.

[Robert M]

JDC,

That isn't JoeH's story. He bought the machine but hasn't upgraded it. Yet. He may do so in the future. What you're describing is actually my story of the last year or so.

I bought my MBP Retina 15" configured for now and the future with no expectations of upgrading it.RAM is more than sufficient for all of my normal tasks. I can upgrade the internal storage but it's unnecessary. 750GB is enough for what I do with the machine. Worst case, I keep an external around and off-load stuff to it as necessary. I also have a 128GB MicroSD chip in a carrier which i leave in the machine's SD card reader for extra storage. It wasn't necessary but I got a great deal on the chip and couldn't resist buying a carrier for it.

We recently purchased an 2014 iMac 27" 5K with 16 gigs of RAM and a 1TB Fusion drive. Again, no expectations of upgrading it. It has more than enough RAM for my tasks and the 1TB fusion drive is dandy for the storage. If 1TB ain't enough for the boot drive, I can get an external USB 3.0 or T-Bolt drive, make it the boot drive and go back to work. 'course, if I want just a smaller amount of extra storage, I can purchase a high capacity SD chip or MicroSD chip and throw it into the iMac's SD card slot, just like I did with my MBP Retina and old '09 MPB.

Robert

[NewtonMP2100]

....usually keep computers for 7+ years, or until forced to buy a new one.....prefer to upgrade to keep longer, if possible.....

[Lew Zealand]

Yes this horse has been beaten down to tiger butter.

tl;dr: big surprise, I like having the option of more RAM and SSD/HDD, but not having to buy it up front

3 NUCs in the past year— RAM, SSD and HDDs swapped out in each one at least once. Only one has max RAM.
2 Minis in the past 4 years— RAM, SSDs and HDDs swapped out in both quite a few times. Neither has max RAM.
1 NUC and 1 older C2D MBPro 15" received as gifts this year— installed SSD and max RAM in MBP; NUC is as I received it w/SSD, RAM not maxxed

[sekker]

Consider this horse buried from my end.

The purpose of this poll was to see whether the issue of upgradability was real or just perception.

I think we on this board value flexibility and use it, but I think we are a low minority.

Apple is ending that feature because people don't use it.

For those of us who do upgrade, I'd recommend buying last edition models.

Thanks for playing!