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  • Hack upgrades Mac Studio internal SSD for less than half of Apple's prices

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    Not sure about other states (or countries) but (in California) upgrading a removable part in a computer does not invalidate the warranty unless the process or part you used caused the damage/failure.  So if I upgrade my SSD in a PC and then months later a RAM module goes bad, my warranty is not invalid and the manufacturer is still on the hook for repairing the RAM failure.  


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  • Trump tariffs will raise prices, but Apple has set the table to avoid the worst of it

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    mpantone said:
    Xed said:
    Apple will be fine, it's the regular consumers who will suffer as a result. The less money you have the more this will impact you.
    These sort of policies always disproportionally impact the low income segment of the population. If you're a professional (doctor, lawyer, engineer), you might not even notice unless you are in the habit of upgrading all of your mobile devices frequently. Many low-income people don't have a short device upgrade cycle anyhow.

    But hey, people had their reasons for their choice in selecting the incoming administration. They will have to live with the repercussions for the next four years. I'm sure they all thought through things very carefully before casting their ballots.
    The "incoming administration" pool of voters had a majority of uneducated white male voters from Red states.  'Nuf said.  As in his previous term, the rich will thrive and the middle/low income will survive/suffer.  I've heard some Trump voters literally ask "What's a tariff?"  Yet they checked the Trump box on their ballot. 
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  • New Mac mini has a slotted & removable SSD -- but don't expect upgrades

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    Rogue01 said:

    MplsP said:
    It’ll be interesting to see if someone comes out with an aftermarket board for this. If it is indeed a standard PCIE interface it should be very possible to do so. 
    Unfortunately not.  The security encryption would render any aftermarket board as useless.  Apple made it require Apple specific boards and chips to work.
    And yet, a company has Studio M1 and M2 (and soon Mac Mini M4) modules they are manufacturing.  Now, I'm no insider, but I'd bet they tested these before manufacturing them and they actually work. 
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  • New Mac mini has a slotted & removable SSD -- but don't expect upgrades

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    macxpress said:
    shamino said:
    YP101 said:
    I don't think user upgradeable for storage anyway. This was same for Mac Studio.
    Apple coded each storage for specific unit so user can't upgrade. Unless Apple change the way.
    Except that, as the hacker community discovered, if you use new (that is, never-been-written) flash chips, you can use Apple's Configurator 2 utility to initialize them and install macOS.  This will set up the cryptographic pairing.  You can't wipe used flash modules (e.g. to move storage from one Mac to another), but it does means that upgrades are possible.

    So far, we've just seen some people making bare circuit boards and you need the microsoldering skills necessary to attach new flash chips to those boards, but I think it's just a matter of time before someone starts selling boards with chips pre-installed.  So even if end-user upgrades won't be practical, I think we will soon see independent repair shops that can do it.
    The upgradable SSD is a moot point anyways. 99.9% of owners will never upgrade it nor care to. 
    Really?  Did you take a poll to get that 99.9% figure or did you just pull that out of some dark, moist crevasse between your bum-cheeks?  YOU may never do it, but don't speak for everyone else.  You might use the PC market as an example as to how many people ARE interested in upgrading their SSD as the retail SSD market is HUGE.
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  • New Mac mini has a slotted & removable SSD -- but don't expect upgrades

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    elijahg said:
    It's almost certainly PCIE on a non-standard connector, like every Mac that has actually had a slotted SSD since about 2012. However, there may be a controller on the "blade" that has special Apple firmware.
    Looking at both sides of the SSD module, there is clearly no controller on the SSD board.  2 NAND chips and some supporting circuitry.  A controller would be a somewhat larger chip and it's just not there.
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