SOC-based Macs would be easier to upgrade because they have more stuff on it. But there are a lot of other things around it that wouldn't go with it still or wouldn't have necessarily a very long lifespan. Apple gets the advantages of having a system on a chip in that so much stuff, the GPU, the RAM, all the bus stuff is on the SOC,. It's not for you to swap out the Amazon, it's for them to do it. And some sockets live longer than others in the PC space. So I think it would work like that if it ever happened.

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