One of the major drawbacks of laptops compared to desktop PCs is how hard they are to upgrade. In most cases, key components like the CPU and GPU are soldered directly to the motherboard, which means you can't replace or upgrade them down the line.

Those two events now mean that you can now buy a MacBook Pro with 512GB of storage and 16GB of memory for $1599 directly from Apple, which previously started at $1999. Sure, you won’t be buying a Pro chip at that price. In my opinion though, all of the ...