{"id":34161,"date":"2024-03-06T00:00:24","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T07:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/?p=34161"},"modified":"2024-03-06T15:10:00","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T22:10:00","slug":"newsletter-issue-1052-apple-places-you-in-upgrade-hell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.technightowl.live\/blog\/2024\/03\/newsletter-issue-1052-apple-places-you-in-upgrade-hell\/","title":{"rendered":"Newsletter Issue #1052 \u2014 Apple Places You in Upgrade Hell"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Most of you are aware that I have been around the Apple universe since the 1980s, so maybe I know one or two things. I know, for example, that despite its claims or illusions to the contrary, Apple is not your friend. It is a multinational profit-making corporation that pays a little more than lip service to the environment, recycling and products that are more user friendly.<\/p>\n<p>Now when the first Macintosh personal computer was released in 1984, the critics pounced on it. Not just because a graphical user interface must be a toy, nothing to take seriously (they said), but it was offered as an appliance. You could use it, have it repaired, but upgrades just weren\u2019t possible, unlike the do-it-yourself atmosphere in PC-land. Keep that in mind.<\/p>\n<p>Over the years, more and more Macs could be upgraded, until they couldn\u2019t. One of the simplest was the Macintosh II series, where it was simple to lift the cover and replace RAM, hard drives and graphic cards. The floppy drive was dust prone because of its faulty layout on the chassis, so it often had to be removed for cleaning. So what could be better?<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"Wait! 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