So I wish someone would actually give me a sensible answer to this question.
Why do you need to upgrade RAM and SSD? What are you doing at "upgrade time" that you weren't doing before that requires the upgrade?
Now... let's say the answer to that is I'm doing "X" - whatever X is. So X is something that ... apparently ... will benefit from a storage and RAM upgrade but not any other upgrade. Really? What possible workflow exists that meets that specific requirement?
Ok... so maybe you'll then be willing to admit that "Well, no there really isn't any workflow or whatever that exists that benefits ONLY from RAM/Storage upgrade, and not CPU, GPU, or any other upgrades."
And so if that's the case, what's wrong with: Sell the old one (they hold their value pretty damn well) and buy a new one, and upgrade EVERYTHING?
I have asked this question multiple times on this forum, and NO ONE has ever given me a sane, logical answer to it. Maybe you or someone else replying to this will be the first?
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It won't. Here's one reason why:
https://www.google.com/search?q=usb-c+magsafe
A multitude of options, some of which suck, sure, but some are even significantly better than Apple's implementation. And when you don't need plugged-in power have an extra port that you wouldn't have otherwise (without compromising something else).
This is BETTER.
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Good explanation. I kinda think the last point is pretty key - that is Mac users/wanters have been asking for this "headless iMac" for 20+ years and neither Steve, nor Tim have built it. And it could even be argued that when Apple was building essentially the same thing prior to Steve coming back, they nearly went bankrupt.
So maybe it's the reasons explained above or maybe it's something else. Maybe we'll never know. But whatever it is, there's a very sound business reason somewhere in there why it's NEVER happened, and likely never will (no matter how much MacRumors forum readers think it should or want it). Gonna have to deal.