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True for individuals who are unable to value their time, but I doubt you'd find an IT industry professional who agreed. You buy the machine with the support contract and you get the supported parts and you don't touch them. Modern designs don't even have replaceable RAM, for good reasons and not as some kind of conspiracy.



> True for individuals who are unable to value their time, but I doubt you'd find an IT industry professional who agreed.

Sure, if you value your time at hundreds of dollars for a 10min job. But most people would probably just call that delusional.

> Modern designs don't even have replaceable RAM, for good reasons and not as some kind of conspiracy.

Feel free to state them then. Because as a customer the most generous possible interpretation I can see would be that all manufacturers got a sudden bout of anorexia.




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