As a security expert that has been cited in and written for Lifehacker, Gawker, Gizmodo, Q&A and Evil Week, I would highly recommend you don’t do this unless you have very good reasons.

Wow... did Torch get ahold of Collins’s passwords or something?

Meghan, I’m really worried about you using so much Tik-Tok lately. I think I need to ask Melissa to stage an intervention to take your phone away or something. Or at least call the police for a welfare check.

That gets you a respectable 8GB of DDR4 memory

A lot of the “Apple Tax” can be mitigated by buying last year’s Apple products refurbished.

I’ll give you the benefit of the doubt that you got this idea from your friend, but to be clear and give due credit, the idea started here:

Related: Eat a Snickers with a knife and fork.

The URL headline is more honest than what is published.  I suggest reverting.

Bear in mind its not just Apple that does this. Hell, the ThinkPad I just bought had RAM upgrades at over 100% the cost of doing it myself. Thankfully, being a ThinkPad, I can (and did) do it myself. At least with RAM most vendors have some pretty insane markup.

And are not even close to profitable

Desktops and laptops are less than 12% of Apples revenue.  The price of memory upgrades has nothing to do with their pile of cash.  However, the price of iPhone, ipads and Apple services does.

And has a business model of ignoring the law.

I get the frustration of not having Lyft and yes, that leaves people with one fewer option for getting around, and yes, they are being particularly pig-headed about it, but let’s not pretend that anyone has any entitlement to a ride-sharing service that didn’t even exist a few years ago.

Industry-wide, chassis rigidity is pretty damn solid so a small loss can be shrugged off and nearly everything has a hatch area for stowage.

Eh, it’s gonna take more than that to make something that really deserves to be called a LTD. Don’t get me wrong- I firmly believe that RWD is an absolutely critical ingredient in upholding the LTD’s brand identity (BOF... maybe less so, but still preferable). But it’s gotta look like a LTD too. Not just by including…

You’re describing the Yukon Denali. 

Exactly. Counter-intuitive, stupid, dangerous. Twenty whatever the hell steps forward in EV visibility and disruption (and admittedly awesome acceleration/performance). Thirtyderp steps back in previously-perfected, frequently-used, safe vehicle operations.

I see the driver being in between a rock and a hard place. Chances are, driving around in a rainstorm with your wipers off is also illegal (it is in most places in the US).

Touch screens are dumb and dangerous for any functions of a car that are actively controlled while driving. Sure, bury settings in touch menus. But stereo volume, hvac (esp defrost), wipers, cruise, trasmission, blinker, lights, etc all need to be physical buttons that can be manipulated without looking.

Gordon Murray also thinks that touch screens in fast cars are dangerous, and one does not argue with that mustache.