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It sucks that the SSD is (presumably) not upgradeable anymore. Apple generally charges a ton for the larger SSD offerings, but it used to be that you could just
by beervirus 6y ago
It sucks that the SSD is (presumably) not upgradeable anymore. Apple generally charges a ton for the larger SSD offerings, but it used to be that you could just buy a base model and replace the thing later.
- dschuler 6y agoApple positions itself as being on the side of the consumer, and while they never really justified their soldered-down RAM (on laptops), one _might_ argue that it reduced failure rates. It's interesting that IBM discovered that soldering RAM to the individual compute modules in the Blue Gene/L (ca. 2004-2007) did improve reliability, in part because they had 2^16 modules in one cluster. I don't really buy that argument for laptop RAM, and especially not for SSDs, but I'm not sure if there's anything that can push back against Apple other than plain old competition, which they're trying to distance themselves from as much as possible, of course.
- judge2020 6y agoThey're on the side of a certain type of consumer (doesn't even consider upgrading hardware down the line), and with these product launches they're making it more clear than ever that they don't want you to purchase their products if you don't fit into being that type of consumer.
- Aperocky 6y agoUse external drives. They're cheaper and way larger.
- beervirus 6y agoAnd slower. And one bumped cable away from corrupted data. No thanks, not for my boot drive.
- Aperocky 6y agoNAS is a very established solution that is not expensive at all to set up at home.
- dannyw 6y agoTry editing 4K videos over 1GbE Internet from your NAS, because the mini doesn’t support more people 10gbe.
- Aperocky 6y agoYou still have local storage... This is the same concept as L1 -> L2 -> L3 Cache -> RAM -> Disk. When you need something, bump it up, when you don't, move it away.
- dannyw 6y agoI'd prefer to store my hot raw video footage on my disk, and my preferred way to do that is by buying a $350 2TB nvme instead of paying Apple $1000 or whatever for the privilege.
- thirdsun 6y agoI understand that it's less convenient but you actually can buy that 2TB NVME SSD as external drive too. It should operate in the same ballpark as decent to higher end internal NVME SSD options.
- unethical_ban 6y agoNot slower, with USB/SSD speeds today. Do you need a 512GB boot drive?
- whywhywhywhy 6y agoIt only has two ports and multiport dongles are not reliable enough for external storage, you can only trust the single USB-C to USB-A dongles for that so it means giving up a port. I have a base level 2 port MBP from work and having to do any work with large files has been a nightmare because of this, having to juggle power/monitor and storage constantly.
- neop1x 6y agoAlso good luck recovering data from a watter-damaged laptop. I have also seen some macbooks with broken SSD on eBay, sold for cheap. Soldered SSD is a ticking timebomb for your data.