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sflocal said:

This is a fantastic - and evolving - option for Mac Studio owners.  As they use customer boards for the NAND chips, I would totally entertain this route if bigger players like OWC, Crucial, and Kingston created their own versions.

I often restored Macs with DFU and that part is actually quite easy, but definitely not for the average Joe.

My only curiosity is whether Apple will clamp down on this by removing the SSD slots on future Mac Studios and soldering the chips directly on the board.  

Either way, it gives me hope.  I want my future Mac Studio to be 8TB and that $2,400 upcharge is just highway robbery.

One has to wonder why Apple continuously uses proprietary connectors and modules for their slotted drives?  Even the old MacBook Pro's had a special slot (someone did make a clever, cheap converter to use a more standard m.2 SSD).  What purpose?  Their drives aren't faster than retail SSD's at 1/3 the price.  Must be just to ensure all upgrades are done at time of original purchase at their rip-off prices.

Stabitha_Christie said:

Cesar Battistini Maziero said:

The video was great! People are getting so miserable.

Who’s gracious of you to designate yourself as the gatekeeper of how the citizens of another country should feel about their depiction. Why would you ever want to let people speak for themselves, that would just be ridiculous.  

Oh look!  It's the opinion police!  Did you even watch the ad?  The Americans were made to look way more inept than Thailand was made to look like a 3rd-world country, but no one is complaining about that!  

The headline makes it sound like a Windows Update caused the issue, when in fact, the issue was a 3rd party software company.

Could have been worded better.  People are already blaming Windows...this headline doesn't help.

Regarding Zune, it's unfortunate that back then, MS couldn't market itself out of a paper bag.  Zune was superior to iPod as was the Zune software superior to even todays lame iTunes software.  Zune software was one of the best music apps for years.  It's just unfortunate that MS couldn't make anything of it.

debonbon said:

How some people don’t see how this advert is on the nose is beyond me. Making an ad trying to appeal to creatives by showing all their beloved tools being crushed and replaced by a tablet. I LOVE my iPad Air but I also LOVE my guitars, keyboards, amp etc. It was just really dumb idea and how they didn’t foresee such a reaction is bizarre.

How many very famous rock bands and guitar players are known for destroying their equipment and smashing their guitars during their shows?  I don't recall the outrage back then.  Plus, Apple didn't destroy anything nor are they suggesting you destroy your beloved guitar.  It was a visual metaphor to show what all an iPad can do.  And a clever one.  I liked it.