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If I was the engineering putting the MBA together, I would think that in the back of my mind as I decided that baked on SSDs were the way to go that this wouldn
by icegreentea 16y ago
If I was the engineering putting the MBA together, I would think that in the back of my mind as I decided that baked on SSDs were the way to go that this wouldn't catch on with everyone (manufacturers).
I mean, there's no way you deny that incredible space savings you get. But you're also locking in the main storage, something that people have been able to change in their laptops for (seeming) forever, something that I probably just did in my own MBP (cause those base Toshiba units are kinda funky) a few months ago.
- MrFoof 16y agoI'm fairly certain that the SSD is basically a Mini PCI-E card. The overall dimensions are uncommon, but I believe there's no common standard for the size of Mini-PCIe SSDs in the first place. In theory, the drive could be upgraded. Securing it to the chassis is a challenge left to the reader.
- stellar678 16y agoMight be interesting for this to turn into a new storage standard. It doesn't seem like they had to go through any particular shenanigans to cram the flash chips onto that form-factor. Then the non-upgradeable MBA main storage would become upgradeable.