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The best strategy with Apple is to skimp on everything and upgrade it yourself. The price difference will cover a second laptop if you fuck the first one up.

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The 8Gb RAM upgrade now is $400 - same price if you buy it on newegg. You could argue that you will still have 4Gb laying around, but I personally have no use for that and can't be bothered to sell it.

Upgrade retailers like MacSales.com will buy the stuff back from you, so at least it's not entirely worthless.

This is what I've always done. I managed to keep my first Mac (a TiBook) feeling fresh for 6 years, and my second (a MacBook) still seems basically new at 2 years.

But can you do this with the unibody MBPs? The battery's not user replaceable, right? What about the HD and RAM?

The ram is absolutely replaceable and easy to do. From reading above, it looks like the HDD is pretty easy as well.

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