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M1 Mac SSD and RAM can be upgraded. Also, grass is green.
eti:
The consumers believe all they hear, and until some "official revelation" is published <woo woo! waving of hands!> no one believes the obvious (which is extrapolated from the VERY VERY OBVIOUS that looking at the M1 SoC shows it to have 2x BGA RAM dies, and the mobo has 2x SSD ICs... ) I'd hardly gravitate to "Mac Rumors" as my first port of call as to whether or not something INCREDIBLY OBVIOUS could be achieved.. wow.
These guys act like it's magic - it's JUST SOLDER - electronic glue, and the chips are just soldered on. This kind of reporting puts the person having "made the 'discovery' " out to be some form of magician genius... :-DD :palm:
https://www.macrumors.com/2021/04/06/m1-mac-ram-and-ssd-upgrades-possible/
ataradov:
It was not obvious that replaced ICs would be recognized by the OS. And I bet they won't be recognized by the next patch. Just like you can't replace SSD chips on the current MAC devices.
Apple probably did not think people are crazy enough to try that, but once advertised as possible, they will surely block it.
eti:
I see the whole thing as a pointless excercise; well of course they can swap the chips for larger ones - Apple sell the Mac with the same RAM/SSD specs as was swapped for in this experiment - so DUH - yeah of course, Apple have them in warehouses at the same specs.
rsjsouza:
I didn't see they were using PoP (Package on Package)... Nasty little things from the cellphone world - the first I saw was the then new OMAP3530, part of the original BeagleBoard.
But yes, the title of the article is terribly misleading. I don't think Apple will worry too much, as the operation is terribly error prone and, unless someone starts offering upgrade services at relatively low cost, it will be noise.
ataradov:
--- Quote from: eti on April 10, 2021, 12:24:34 am ---well of course they can swap the chips for larger ones
--- End quote ---
This is not "of course". Apple ties serial numbers of the chips to the motherboard. Swapped chips brick the device.
And this processor will also tie memories to the core, so this trick will not work.
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