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Will we see another generation of 8gb/256ssds? Where the 8gb means you'll be making massive, unprecedented writes to your SSD due to aggressive swap usage when

Will we see another generation of 8gb/256ssds? Where the 8gb means you'll be making massive, unprecedented writes to your SSD due to aggressive swap usage when just web browsing (my m1 air wrote approx 1 TB/day for a week until I returned mine), and a smaller ssd to wear out even faster? Will the aggressive sabotage of their products' longevity continue? I figure in another year or two, we'll start seeing news coverage of lage numbers of m1s failing from ssd failure, and apple will just say "you're using it wrong"

epolanski 3y ago
This is my biggest beef with their lineup as well. The markup in memory pricing is beyond depressing and I'm not opening my wallet, at best, my employer's.
- musicale 3y ago
  I understood PP's concern to be about excessive flash wear due to swapping rather than tiered memory pricing. Regardless, "markup" probably isn't the right word, since Apple is the supplier of its own SIPs. DIMMs would likely be cheaper to the end user per gigabyte (and possibly upgradable!) but it's not really an apples-to-apples comparison vs. in-package memory. Flash storage is perhaps a better comparison and it certainly isn't cheap, but you can easily add fast Thunderbolt storage.
  - Clamchop 3y ago
    It wasn't much different when they were using standard DIMMs, to my recollection.
jodrellblank 3y ago
Wasn't that buggy reporting which Apple fixed? https://www.macworld.com/article/334275/apple-silicon-m1-macbook-mac-mini-ssd-read-write-excessive-data-terabytes.html https://www.macworld.com/article/334275/apple-silicon-m1-mac...
sfmike 3y ago
I got my m1 air the day it launched in Nov 20 and it's almost to 3 years and going strong. Really hoping m3 goes to 16 so can upgrade
rewmie 3y ago
Thanks for bringing up the SSD problems plaguing MacBooks. From Apple's discussion forum. "If Mac M1’s built-in SSD died" - 2020 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252658125 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252658125

epolanski 3y ago

This is my biggest beef with their lineup as well. The markup in memory pricing is beyond depressing and I'm not opening my wallet, at best, my employer's.

musicale 3y ago
I understood PP's concern to be about excessive flash wear due to swapping rather than tiered memory pricing. Regardless, "markup" probably isn't the right word, since Apple is the supplier of its own SIPs. DIMMs would likely be cheaper to the end user per gigabyte (and possibly upgradable!) but it's not really an apples-to-apples comparison vs. in-package memory. Flash storage is perhaps a better comparison and it certainly isn't cheap, but you can easily add fast Thunderbolt storage.
- Clamchop 3y ago
  It wasn't much different when they were using standard DIMMs, to my recollection.

jodrellblank 3y ago

Wasn't that buggy reporting which Apple fixed? https://www.macworld.com/article/334275/apple-silicon-m1-macbook-mac-mini-ssd-read-write-excessive-data-terabytes.html https://www.macworld.com/article/334275/apple-silicon-m1-mac...

sfmike 3y ago

I got my m1 air the day it launched in Nov 20 and it's almost to 3 years and going strong. Really hoping m3 goes to 16 so can upgrade

rewmie 3y ago

Thanks for bringing up the SSD problems plaguing MacBooks. From Apple's discussion forum. "If Mac M1’s built-in SSD died" - 2020 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252658125 https://discussions.apple.com/thread/252658125