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  • iPhone SE 4 may get the iPhone 15 Pro's 'Action Button'

    mayflymayfly
    I'm going to hang on to my 2020 SE until they either release or officially kill off the SE 4. It's the form factor for me. I don't care about HD or UHD videos, or game frame rates, anything but phone calls, and an occasional vacation photo (the wife uses her DSLR for the official travel shows everyone else hates watching). And it has to fit sideways in my cycling jersey pocket do it doesn't fall out when I hit a bump. Currently the SE is the only phone that fits that criterion.
    retrogustosc_markt

  • Upgrading an Apple Silicon Mac mini SSD is possible, but a slog

    mayflymayfly
    mikethemartian said:
    mayfly said:
    At the beginning of every episode of the late, lamented best show ever on TV, Mythbusters: "Don't try this at home!"
    And their famous motto: "Failure is always an option."

    Average melting temperature of solder used in circuit boards is 361° F. A soldering iron heats up to 480°. That's enough to destroy the circuitry inside that SSD. Sure, you're taking it out and don't care (except for destroying the surrounding chips), but now you have to solder the new one in. And you have to solder not just one, but dozens of them.

    This is done by robotics at the factory where they're made, that use an entirely different process to solder everything on the logic board at the same time, in less than second. Until you can buy one of those robots, your chances of success are slim and none. And Slim just left the building.

    Just buy an external drive.
    Obviously this isn’t something that most people would try at home but PCB boards get reworked all the time by technicians on production lines.
    Be interested to see the fail rate of those technicians you're talking about, since if they do, they just reach in a box and get another one.
    FileMakerFeller

  • Upgrading an Apple Silicon Mac mini SSD is possible, but a slog

    mayflymayfly
    avon b7 said:
    mayfly said:
    Apple has 4 tiers of flat rate repairs for OOW (out of warranty) Macs. A failed SSD on a MBP is a Tier 1 and will cost you a very reasonable $280. Tier 4 is for Mac with observable damage, such as broken screen, large dents indicating a drop, or water damage. At that point, you're almost always better off dumping it.

    That is way too much for what is an SSD change. Well, what should be at least. 

    As Rossman has been pointing out for ages now, Apple soldered SSD is a design defect. I agree with that opinion especially as some machines were supposedly engineered to kill the entire board when the SSD goes south and in doing so, not even allow the machine to boot from an external SSD.

    Those prices are obviously US prices. I would imagine the EU pricing is way higher. 

    He is currently claiming he sees two or three 16 inch MBPs a day with failed SSDs. 
    So $280 is way to much to replace an SSD with a new one regardless of capacity? What year are you living in, and what would consider a reasonable price to install a brand-new logic board with a new SSD on a MBP? Less than $280?
    You're citing the opinion of a YouTube personality about the reliability of MBP SSD's. And since he has to either do this repair himself, or send it in to Apple for replacement and upcharge for it, it would cost far, far more than that $280. You have no complaint.
    watto_cobra

  • Thieves ditch hidden AirTag in Vancouver car jacking

    mayflymayfly
    Just didn't hide it well enough. And it's just going to happen more and more as car thieves get accustomed to looking for them.

    If you can hide it without using tools to place it, it will be found. The harder it is to get to when installing it, the harder it is to find when trying to remove it!
    lolliverBart YMystakilljony0

  • Upgrading an Apple Silicon Mac mini SSD is possible, but a slog

    mayflymayfly
    YP101 said:
    Apple should reconsider SSD should be replaceable. What a waste of money and landfilled.
    Over $1000 laptop or desktop died due to just SSD failure. Is this really green as Apple always claimed all their product made by recycle material but in the end they create more unnecessary.
    Mac mini, Pro, Studio, Macbook Air and Pro can be user replaceable like Mac Studio Apple's own form factor SSD.

    I am not asking Apple makes their computer use nVME PCI-E 4.0 or 5.0 SSD from Samsung or others.
    I am asking stop create products that force consumer to choose from the purchase and stuck with SSD.
    The RAM is already some what built in with chip so I don't care. the RAM rarely failed anyway. And soon or later Apple will bump base model to 16GB.   

    People will upgrade their computer anyway soon or later.
    However don't make them force to buy new computer and can not trade in if computer not functioning as not able loading MacOS due to SSD failure.
    Currently Apple only recycle it free of charge from you.
    Unless Apple pay trade in not functioning computer as long as no physical damage shown at least 50% what same model functioning computer trade in price.

    I am not sure why FTC does not look into this? This is more against consumer right then Microsoft and Activision merge.
    Apple has 4 tiers of flat rate repairs for OOW (out of warranty) Macs. A failed SSD on a MBP is a Tier 1 and will cost you a very reasonable $280. Tier 4 is for Mac with observable damage, such as broken screen, large dents indicating a drop, or water damage. At that point, you're almost always better off dumping it.

    danoxFileMakerFellerwatto_cobra