Re: Selective deafness
It's not just laptops, their other machines have gone down this route as well. I've had a couple of Mac Minis in the past, but the most recent time I replaced mine? I bought a NUC instead.
My previous Mac Minis have both had RAM/HDD upgrades to prolong their life. Sure they eventually ran out of steam and were replaced, but why are you against prolonging the life of computers and keeping them out of landfill for a bit longer? Back in the days of OSX Tiger, 1-2GB of RAM was plenty. Move on to Snow Leopard and dual boot with Windows 7, 4GB became a necessity. With older Mac Minis, this was fairly straight forward.