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People are worried about DRAM soldered to the motherboard? I'd be much more worried about the Flash that is, just as the RAM, also permanently soldered to the
by revelation 14y ago
People are worried about DRAM soldered to the motherboard?
I'd be much more worried about the Flash that is, just as the RAM, also permanently soldered to the motherboard. With the wear-leveling most chipsets do nowadays, these things will just simultaneously drop dead in three years.
edit: Took another look: http://imgur.com/x0I9x http://imgur.com/x0I9x
It seems that they might indeed be exchangeable. Looked a lot like they were soldered on with the rest on a first glance.
- socialist_coder 14y agoThe flash ssd is not soldered in from what I can tell. It's probably like the MBA where it has some kind of connector and is probably the only user serviceable part.
- huxley 14y agoIt's definitely not soldered in. OWC says that it is similar but probably not exactly the same as the one in the Macbook Air, they are looking at providing an upgrade model like they do for the Airs: http://blog.macsales.com/14090-not-a-lot-of-options-for-macbook-pro-w-retina-display http://blog.macsales.com/14090-not-a-lot-of-options-for-macb...
- Xylakant 14y agoFrom what I heard it's not soldered to the mainboard but a custom SSD-Like chip similar to the ones in the Macbook Air.
- toyg 14y agoAnandtech has the details. TL;DR: it's not soldered but the connector is brand-new and non-standard. http://www.anandtech.com/show/6003/the-new-macbook-air-uses-toshibas-sata-6gbs-ssds http://www.anandtech.com/show/6003/the-new-macbook-air-uses-...