Apple Store shenanigans

Kur4mA · 20-10-2014 10:54am #1

Hi all,

This might seem a little bit petty, but it has me slightly annoyed. I bought an Apple Macbook Pro Retina 13' from the Apple Store just a couple of months ago in June and it had 4GB RAM.

Now, a colleague of mine has gotten the exact same model as me for the same price and his arrived with 8GB RAM in it. I checked the Apple Store and it looks like they've upgraded the default you get with the 13' macbook pro retina to 8GB for the same price.

Do you guys reckon I've any chance of getting an upgrade or something from Apple?

shanec1928 · 20-10-2014 11:18am

No..pretty sure the cpu was upgraded as well as ram

Tokyo · 20-10-2014 11:56am

What makes you think that you are entitled to an upgrade? Not being smart, just curious?

June is four months ago and counting now (well before that time of year where Apple upgrade their products), and your friend bought his after they upgraded their line. Seems pretty clear cut to me.

Sad Professor · 20-10-2014 12:23pm

New MacBooks were released at the end of July. Hard luck. Had you asked on here we could have warned you. But it was a very minor refresh. Had Broadwell been ready you would have missed out on a lot more than 4GB of RAM.

Kur4mA · 20-10-2014 12:50pm

Thanks for the info. It wasn't so much feeling entitled to an upgrade, just a bit of a kick in the teeth. It's my first Apple product (but not my last) so I was a bit confused as to why the specs would have changed in such a short amount of time.

I'll make sure you pick your brains in the future before I make any further purchases.

miralize · 20-10-2014 12:59pm

kyub wrote: »

Thanks for the info. It wasn't so much feeling entitled to an upgrade, just a bit of a kick in the teeth. It's my first Apple product (but not my last) so I was a bit confused as to why the specs would have changed in such a short amount of time.

I'll make sure you pick your brains in the future before I make any further purchases.

Yep first time it happens, its hurts. Apple products usually dont go a maximum of 18 months without a product refresh of some sorts. Sometimes its a RAM bump, other times its a lineup refresh or a huge feature (like a retina model in 2012)

You just have to live with it unfortunately.

FourFourRED · 20-10-2014 1:17pm

kyub wrote: »

Thanks for the info. It wasn't so much feeling entitled to an upgrade, just a bit of a kick in the teeth. It's my first Apple product (but not my last) so I was a bit confused as to why the specs would have changed in such a short amount of time.

I'll make sure you pick your brains in the future before I make any further purchases.

The specs didn't change in a short space of time it was more a case of they changed shortly after you made your purchase. The model you bought in June 2014 was released back in 2013.

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