3 ms·
I suspect they began soldering it because the cable connecting the disk drive had a lot of problems in older MacBooks. Soldering may have been an easy fix for t
by aluminussoma 5y ago
I suspect they began soldering it because the cable connecting the disk drive had a lot of problems in older MacBooks. Soldering may have been an easy fix for that.
I hate the soldering, too. I'm just offering an explanation that may make some sense given the context.
- nyxaiur 5y agopcie and nvme ssds use ports that are similar to ram slots there is no more cable involved.
- Dylan16807 5y agoAnd 2.5 inch drives can and often do have ports directly mounted on the laptop motherboard. If you don't want to use a cable, then you simply don't use a cable. Nothing else changes.
- handrous 5y agoIt's less the cable than the connector, so, similar trouble with nvme ports (and ram slots, for that matter). I've barely had exposure to supporting laptop hardware, and have seen "thing shimmied loose" or "contact corroded" as the root cause of problems more than once.
- hdjjhhvvhga 5y agoI like your Ockham razor reasoning, but given the history of this company, it would be very difficult to defend this claim. Soldering the SSD and memory made the device unupgradeable (in contrast to pre-2013 models where I have currently have 2x2TB!).
- adolph 5y agoWhat cable? As far as I can recall, everything not directly soldered since about 2013 was ssd mounted to motherboard using either M.2 or a similar proprietary connector. I suspect it was Cook-ish financial engineering and that trademark Apple hubris (that they finally got over to re-add ports in the most recent MBP).
- aluminussoma 5y agoHere's an older thread on the cable: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7794520 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7794520 This was pre-2013. So perhaps the proprietary connector was a reaction to the cable?