From the very dawn of the personal computing era, the PC and Apple platforms have gone very different ways. IBM compatibles surged in popularity, while Apple was able to more closely guard the Maci…
  • Viper_NZ@lemmy.nzEnglish
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    10 months ago

    It’s replaceable, it’s not upgradable.

    Apple doesn’t use standard NVMe M.2 drives. The controller is built into the SoC rather than being on the storage device itself.

    • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
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      10 months ago

      it never ceases to amaze me the amount of time, energy and money apple spends engineering things to be worse for customers.

      • Viper_NZ@lemmy.nzEnglish
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        10 months ago

        It’s more cost effective to integrate the controller.

        Being worse for customers is just a happy accident.

        • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.worldEnglish
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          10 months ago

          You and I both know that Apple doesnt do this shit for cost efficiency.

          They do it to make make shit worse for consumers and “unauthorized” repair services.