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Originally Posted by pscates2.0
This is how it COULD work. But does anyone think Apple - in true Apple fashion - might somehow try to fix up a way where folks couldn't do this? Who'd buy all new Macs if their processors could easily - and cheaply - be upgraded by the user?
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Well this kind of upgrade path has been available in the PC world for years, but I guarantee that 99% of PC owners would never even dream of opening up their PC and changing the CPU in it. I doubt Mac owners are any different.
Changing the CPU will only be done by a few propellerheads and I doubt that will dent Apple's sales too much.
To be honest though, the major thing Apple have done to stop this is to make their computers (especially the iMac and to a lesser extent the mini) almost impossible to take apart.