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Is that the SSD soldered directly to the board? If so, that's a big disappointment considering the amount of free space in there.
by rewsiffer 6y ago
Is that the SSD soldered directly to the board? If so, that's a big disappointment considering the amount of free space in there.
- vetinari 6y agoIt is soldered to the board since 2016 (on portables), so no surprises there. Since T2, it is only flash chips anyway, the drive controller is inside the T2. So yes, make sure your backup procedure is good.
- mmastrac 6y agoThey nuked the lifeboat connector as well that was potentially useful for actually recovering data if your SSD died. If you lose your CPU, you now lose your SSD.
- kube-system 6y agoIs losing a CPU a common enough failure-case that it makes sense to implement fail-safes for? I would think that's pretty low on the list of likely causes of failure.
- mmastrac 6y agoI mean it's more than CPU - losing power regulators, or anything else that causes your machine not to boot to a DFU mode. Watch Louis Rossman's channel for long enough and you'll see how many possible failure modes there are. My 2014 MBP died a few years back of power regulator cause, but I was able to pull the SSD and image it in the case that they were unable to repair the device.
- Mindwipe 6y agoAs noted below, it's a lot more than the CPU. I lost three Macbooks in two years from USB controller blow outs, which is a known issue because the part they used is lousy, and it took out the entire storage with it. I had some backups thankfully, but I know people who have lost everything.
- PedroBatista 6y agoEverything is soldered now, your ownership is basically the same of an iPhone or iPad now.
- fastball 6y agoOwnership (and adjacently right-to-repair) and upgradeability are two separate problems, let's not conflate them.
- jeffbee 6y agoThis rig has two PCI Express ports right on the back. Upgradability seems OK.
- Hamuko 6y agoAFAIK, the ARM Macs have no eGPU support.
- lights0123 6y agoThat's covered in the article. It's a lack of AMD ARM drivers.
- Hamuko 6y agoThat's not really conclusively proven at the moment.
- ogre_codes 6y agoI'm fine with them integrating the SSD into the mainboard, just wish they offered a slot in there to add some additional storage later.
- 1-6 6y agoWow, such empty!