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Thanks - I watched the videos - it's more about the Unibody Aluminum design. I'm wondering why the memory and flash components are no longer modular, and if th

Thanks - I watched the videos - it's more about the Unibody Aluminum design. I'm wondering why the memory and flash components are no longer modular, and if that's going to be the trend for everyone.

Artemis2 12y ago
The reason is the same: space. Not having standard physical interfaces to plug hardware in represents a huge gain in space. For instance, if the MacBook had a standard SSD, it would need the following: - A SATA controller chipset on the motherboard - The physical connector on the motherboard - The physical connector on the SSD - A SSD controller designed for SATA - Maybe even a plastic enclosure on some laptops Instead, Apple can use a lower-level interface, embed the flash controller and directly put the NAND cells on the motherboard. That's two chips.