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It's all part of a trade-off. My Macbook Air wouldn't be so thin if if had upgradable RAM and SSD.
by toomanybeersies 11y ago
It's all part of a trade-off. My Macbook Air wouldn't be so thin if if had upgradable RAM and SSD.
- legulere 11y agoThe SSD of the Macbook Air is replaceable, it's just using a proprietary slot and form factor. It would have been just as possible with mSATA cards, and is just as possible today with M.2 cards. Apple could switch to M.2 today, as they switched between slot types all the time: http://www.techspot.com/articles-info/768/images/LSI_blog-ssds-everything-image7-LR.jpg http://www.techspot.com/articles-info/768/images/LSI_blog-ss... There probably also still would be enough space for one ram slot, it's not thicker than the ssd which also sits on top of the main board.
- givinguflac 11y agomSATA and M.2 are insanely slow compared to their current choice of PCIe, which is NOT a proprietary slot and FF.
- legulere 11y agoM.2 supports both PCIe and SATA as the protocol. The SSDs in MacBooks used SATA as a protocol until a certain point. Now they use PCIe as a protocol. But that's not what I'm talking about, I'm talking about the physical measures of the slot and the form factor of the card. They always have been proprietary although standards that are just as good existed.