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  • Apple fixes location permissions issue with macOS 13.5.1 update

    mayflymayfly
    Updated today, and it fixed the location services issue.
    watto_cobradarkvader

  • 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

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

    mayflymayfly
    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.
    rob53danoxwatto_cobra

  • Latest macOS Ventura update brings a location services bug

    mayflymayfly
    same here.
    FileMakerFeller

  • Windows XP can partially run on Vision Pro hardware in emulation

    mayflymayfly
    I'm sure they'll sell millions of them…bleah
    darkvader