Is it possible to upgrade Memory (RAM) and Storage (SDD) later?

"Ammol,

Unfortunately in 2016 Apple decided that their Touch Bar based systems will no longer be able to be upgraded, as both the RAM and the SSD are soldered to the motherboard. The only way to upgrade those parts would involve replacing the entire motherboard.

In the teardown you can see the SSD highlighted in yellow, and the RAM highlighted in green.

I hope this helps,

Charlie B"

"Hi @anmols ,

MacBook Pros have changed drastically since your 2011 edition. Everything is soldered onto the motherboard in the MacBook Pro 2018. The RAM and “SSD” are now merely memory chips on a motherboard. Nothing is user-replaceable. Take a look at our teardown for full details."

"You have to begin thinking or wondering… Why do I patronize Apple? I can’t upgrade anything. I’m locked into their ecosystem. They are constantly taking things away that I value (and I’m the Customer!) They tell me what I need, when to eat, and what to wear…..

Is it me or is does this seem like an abusive relationship… LoL!"

"The 2016 & 2017 Function Key models SSD can be upgraded with this original Apple SSD

https://beetstech.com/product/solid-stat..."

"I’ve been pegging out my 2018 MBP RAM 24/7 due to doing JavaScript development, so I am running VS Code, webpack, and four instances of Chrome for various reasons. Once I get around 20 tabs open, the 16GB RAM is pegged out, and then every time I refresh a page, it takes like 5-10 sec because I have browser caching disabled.

This is of course horrific because I am developing, so I am saving JavaScript files every 5-30 sec and reloading the page. It takes sometimes like 30-45 sec to refresh the page, make a one character change in a file, save, and reload the page again. It makes me feel like I’m back in the year 1999 with 24 megs of RAM.

This laptop is only a year old, and if I had known it can’t even handle normal software engineering loads, I would have forced my company to buy the 32GB version. Lately I was thinking about buying one of the new Apple towers with 28 cores and capability of 1.5TB RAM. They’re $5k which is expensive but that kind of power would be viable for the next decade.

Now I’m !#^&@@ though that I can’t even swap my 16GB chip out for a 32GB. I’m going to build my own computer; I’m gonna make a hackintosh and also just not use OSX if they ever figure out a way to prevent it from loading on my machine. And to be clear, I was going to just stick with the Apple tower because it makes it easy to run OSX fully legal, but now I’m going to take a different path, one that involves punishing Apple for crippling my laptop’s viability as a docked mobile workstation.

The sociopathic intent of Apple is clear. I can’t support a company like that. I’ll give them the right to repair trust, but it will take major effort on their part. In the meantime, I’ll keep pulsing anti-Apple sentiments out on every information medium."

"Reading this because wifey want to buy a new mac. I recommended her going for the 2018 model and use the money saved to buy a memory upgrade. This will result in a better machine then buying the 2019 model.

But hey apple forces you to buy their extremely expensive memory upgrades. They remove everything where pro systems stand for. Flexibility to adjust your machine to your needs! Unfortunatly she doesnt want to work with windows so we will buy this overpriced piece of $@$*."