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That's an awesome idea to get a bricked MacBook Neo really fast because those idiots soldered the SSD inside

k4rnaj1k 7mo ago
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windowsrookie 7mo ago
Apple has been soldering the SSD into MacBooks for over 10 years now, and most 10 year old MacBooks still have a working SSD.
- hermanzegerman 7mo ago
  Not if you're powerusing it like in the Article and relying heavily on Swap. Also there are countless reports of bricked M1 8GB MacBook Airs that are bricked because the SSD used up it's write cycles https://youtu.be/0qbrLiGY4Cg?si=mjKn2oLjqAb36hPU https://youtu.be/0qbrLiGY4Cg?si=mjKn2oLjqAb36hPU
  - havaloc 7mo ago
    That's not what the video insinuates.
    - hermanzegerman 7mo ago
      Yes you're right. I meaned a different video, but I can't find it right now. I've looked it up, and back then MacOS had a bug which exacerbated that issue. Here is an article https://www.macrumors.com/2021/02/23/m1-mac-users-report-excessive-ssd-wear/ https://www.macrumors.com/2021/02/23/m1-mac-users-report-exc...
      - windowsrookie 7mo ago
        You originally stated "Also there are countless reports of bricked M1 8GB MacBook Airs that are bricked because the SSD used up it's write cycles" Do you have a source for these "countless bricked SSD's"?
        hermanzegerman 7mo ago
        Here was the Video I meant back then. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MZuv4TIjk-I&pp=ygURZGVhZCBNYWNCb29rcyBzc2Q%3D https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MZuv4TIjk-I&pp=ygURZGVhZCBNYWN...
lachlan_gray 7mo ago
Not sure about the ssd in particular but the neo is apparently pretty modular https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k7Lv7f-5CQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k7Lv7f-5CQ
- sam345 7mo ago
  Fantastic tear down. Thank you. Amazing for Apple. I hope this is the trend going forward but probably not. But still a gazillion screws? I just replaced the keyboard for my old hp elitebook with two screws.
  - hermanzegerman 7mo ago
    I don't care about a gazillion screws, if it's serviceable in the End. If Apple would build their laptops serviceable like ThinkPads I would buy one today.
    - MBCook 7mo ago
      It seems like they’re starting to learn the cost of being too integrated. They’ve slowly been moving towards making it easier to repair individual broken parts. I’m very happy to see that a new keyboard doesn’t require replacing the entire top case. That was just crazy.

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Apple has been soldering the SSD into MacBooks for over 10 years now, and most 10 year old MacBooks still have a working SSD.

hermanzegerman 7mo ago
Not if you're powerusing it like in the Article and relying heavily on Swap. Also there are countless reports of bricked M1 8GB MacBook Airs that are bricked because the SSD used up it's write cycles https://youtu.be/0qbrLiGY4Cg?si=mjKn2oLjqAb36hPU https://youtu.be/0qbrLiGY4Cg?si=mjKn2oLjqAb36hPU
- havaloc 7mo ago
  That's not what the video insinuates.
  - hermanzegerman 7mo ago
    Yes you're right. I meaned a different video, but I can't find it right now. I've looked it up, and back then MacOS had a bug which exacerbated that issue. Here is an article https://www.macrumors.com/2021/02/23/m1-mac-users-report-excessive-ssd-wear/ https://www.macrumors.com/2021/02/23/m1-mac-users-report-exc...
    - windowsrookie 7mo ago
      You originally stated "Also there are countless reports of bricked M1 8GB MacBook Airs that are bricked because the SSD used up it's write cycles" Do you have a source for these "countless bricked SSD's"?
      - hermanzegerman 7mo ago
        Here was the Video I meant back then. https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MZuv4TIjk-I&pp=ygURZGVhZCBNYWNCb29rcyBzc2Q%3D https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MZuv4TIjk-I&pp=ygURZGVhZCBNYWN...

lachlan_gray 7mo ago

Not sure about the ssd in particular but the neo is apparently pretty modular https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k7Lv7f-5CQ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k7Lv7f-5CQ

sam345 7mo ago
Fantastic tear down. Thank you. Amazing for Apple. I hope this is the trend going forward but probably not. But still a gazillion screws? I just replaced the keyboard for my old hp elitebook with two screws.
- hermanzegerman 7mo ago
  I don't care about a gazillion screws, if it's serviceable in the End. If Apple would build their laptops serviceable like ThinkPads I would buy one today.
  - MBCook 7mo ago
    It seems like they’re starting to learn the cost of being too integrated. They’ve slowly been moving towards making it easier to repair individual broken parts. I’m very happy to see that a new keyboard doesn’t require replacing the entire top case. That was just crazy.