Is this a take in regards to soldering in new flash chips or replacing a board and then needing to wrestle Apple support during an RMA to replace a faulty component (because I quiet confidently believe, Apple will cross check your hardware with their records from the serial number).
And I don’t believe regular PC manufacturers/OEMs are that hard to argue with if I insert my own SSD.
Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz 1 month ago
It’s replaceable, it’s not upgradable.
Apple doesn’t use standard NVMe M.2 drives. The controller is built into the SoC rather than being on the storage device itself.
maccentric@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
I’m aware, but I have upgraded my 256GB to 2TB so not sure what you’re on about. See: appleinsider.com/…/how-to-upgrade-the-ssd-in-your…
And: expandmacmini.com
timetraveller@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Saving this for later.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 month ago
it never ceases to amaze me the amount of time, energy and money apple spends engineering things to be worse for customers.
Samskara@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
In this case Apple also prioritizes performance.
Viper_NZ@lemmy.nz 1 month ago
It’s more cost effective to integrate the controller.
Being worse for customers is just a happy accident.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 month ago
You and I both know that Apple doesnt do this shit for cost efficiency.
They do it to make make shit worse for consumers and “unauthorized” repair services.
jabjoe@feddit.uk 1 month ago
Why? Anti-features aren’t just Apple. All big tech do it to users.
A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world 1 month ago
other companies arent engineering serial numbers and other identity information into every component, even shit as small as halleffect sensors, so it cant be taken from a damaged device to repair a differnt device of the same make and model.
To act like what apple does is an industry standard is nothing but blatant apple fanboy propaganda.
squaresinger@lemmy.world 1 month ago
There are some companies as bad as Apple (John Deere comes to mind), but it’s certainly not the norm.
User-replacable standard m.2 SSDs are bog standard and non-standard formats are really rare. Apart from Apple I can not think of many companies that do that. IIRC Red Magic cameras, and Synology NAS but that’s the only ones I can think of.