Your SSD will degrade over time. On a macbook, it is "permanently" soldered to the motherboard and paired with a serial number. WHEN it dies, it is DEAD. that should be enough of a reason to stay away from apple products. - Upgoat

Your SSD will degrade over time. On a macbook, it is "permanently" soldered to the motherboard and paired with a serial number. WHEN it dies, it is DEAD. that should be enough of a reason to stay away from apple products.
submitted by anon to AnonTalk 11 monthsJun 1, 2024 01:13:37 ago (+28/-1) (AnonTalk)

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[ - ] jigganiggaboo 7 points 11 monthsJun 1, 2024 03:19:56 ago (+7/-0)

Its okay apple fanboys will still justify their ass fucking saying its necessary for whatever excuse they come up with.

[ + ] TheYiddler

[ - ] TheYiddler 5 points 11 monthsJun 1, 2024 06:41:29 ago (+5/-0)

Soldering makes the notebook 0.01" thinner which is very, very important.

[ - ] Trope 5 points 11 monthsJun 1, 2024 04:08:07 ago (+5/-0)

You’ll never write enough times to degrade or destroy the SSD. The SSD will simply die randomly regardless of read/writes. It’s like believing a lightbulb will last the thousands of hours listed on the packaging.

[ + ] anon

[ - ] anon 2230333 2 points 11 monthsJun 1, 2024 09:25:16 ago (+2/-0)

Lies. Because of a bug with MacOS on early sales of the MacBook Air 2020, the machines died because the operating system continuously used the SSD for virtual memory. There are a number of YouTube videos addressing this. In fact, they were the reason I constantly monitored my used MacBook Air's writes and eventually just sold the machine to whoever wanted it.

[ + ] anon

[ - ] anon 1946117 0 points 11 monthsJun 1, 2024 12:47:58 ago (+0/-0)

Sounds like Apple made that a feature, rather than it being a bug that escaped Q&A.

[ - ] anon 2672719 4 points 11 monthsJun 1, 2024 01:19:31 ago (+4/-0)

wow so this means that apple user gets fucked over since he cant replace the failing SSD. so in a nutshell, the user will have to buy another mac right?

if so what a scam

[ + ] WhiteCollarCriminal

[ - ] WhiteCollarCriminal 4 points 11 monthsJun 1, 2024 01:31:34 ago (+4/-0)

If this is the first indication you had that apple products are a scam then you haven't been paying attention.

[ + ] anon

[ - ] anon 1475537 1 point 11 monthsJun 1, 2024 10:49:29 ago (+1/-0)

Back in the day I had a 120gb iPod classic when that used to be a massive amount and that worked well. That's about all I have for praise for them though.

[ + ] anon

[ - ] anon 2672719 0 points 11 monthsJun 1, 2024 01:55:54 ago (+0/-0)

nope i just dont use apple products moron

[ + ] anon

[ - ] anon 2486363 0 points 11 monthsJun 1, 2024 12:28:26 ago (+0/-0)

It occured to me in 1985.

[ + ] Sector2

[ - ] Sector2 2 points 11 monthsJun 1, 2024 02:36:31 ago (+2/-0)

I've just been scammed into buying a new M3 iMac to replace my 11 year old. Life is rough.

[ - ] anon 4266716 2 points 11 monthsJun 1, 2024 05:27:46 ago (+2/-0)

This is why they solder in ram as well. Kike policies

[ - ] anon 2276658 2 points 11 monthsJun 1, 2024 04:13:32 ago (+2/-0)

Could use an external hard drive. Just change the boot drive in the bios

[ + ] PotatoWhisperer2

[ - ] PotatoWhisperer2 0 points 11 monthsJun 1, 2024 05:46:42 ago (+0/-0)

Lol, and take forever to do anything. Once that internal goes it's done.

[ + ] anon

[ - ] anon 1946117 0 points 11 monthsJun 1, 2024 12:54:26 ago (+0/-0)

You can boot from an external? Sounds like a bad idea though due to the slow bandwidth.

[ - ] lord_nougat 2 points 11 monthsJun 1, 2024 01:25:14 ago (+2/-0)

this cheapassed chinese lenovo IT gave me takes a normal little ssd card. In your face, apple!

That reminds me. I need to backup whatever the missus saves locally on her stupid macbook I bought her twelve years ago which somehow still works.

[ + ] anon

[ - ] anon 3699103 1 point 11 monthsJun 1, 2024 07:55:50 ago (+1/-0)

Machines from 20 years are still all the power one would need to do the things people do now.

[ + ] anon

[ - ] anon 8831208 0 points 11 monthsJun 1, 2024 12:54:06 ago (+0/-0)*

Used to like Lenovo. Now Lenovo keyboard layouts are demoralization machines; when you CTRL-C, you are actually hitting the Function key and you don't realize it until after you paste nothing.

Repeat endlessly.

[ + ] lord_nougat

[ - ] lord_nougat 1 point 11 monthsJun 1, 2024 13:30:36 ago (+1/-0)

Yeah, that is retarded.

[ - ] anon 2099088 0 points 11 monthsJun 2, 2024 17:01:49 ago (+0/-0)

Way ahead of ya...

[ - ] anon 1627621 1 point 11 monthsJun 1, 2024 09:09:22 ago (+1/-0)

only retards buy apple shit

[ - ] Fishsticksforever 1 point 11 monthsJun 1, 2024 08:45:14 ago (+1/-0)

Only retards buy apple products, and there's a lot of them out there walking around.

[ - ] anon 2767921 0 points 11 monthsJun 1, 2024 15:26:39 ago (+0/-0)

When you post in anon sub you are permanently a faggot.

[ - ] bonghits4jeebus 0 points 11 monthsJun 1, 2024 12:59:01 ago (+0/-0)

They're throwaway items. And Mac users don't generate enough of anything to quickly wear them down.

[ - ] anon 3717051 0 points 11 monthsJun 1, 2024 12:47:46 ago (+0/-0)

Apple is collecting enough data to deepfake anything.
https://www.itechpost.com/articles/105677/20210518/iphone-spying-taking-invisible-photos-disable-face-id-infrared-camera.htm

[ - ] anon 1946117 0 points 11 monthsJun 1, 2024 12:45:30 ago (+0/-0)

Louis Rossman is doing great work with right to repair.

I put my own PCs together, and will just replace the drive.

[ - ] anon 3115337 0 points 11 monthsJun 1, 2024 10:24:00 ago (+0/-0)

Solid state storage used to have extra space for when areas of it inevitably die. For example, your as advertised 1 TB SSD (which will format out to ~.91 tb due to calculating with 1000 instead of 1024) will have something like 1.2 TB of actual storage. When the area storing data is going bad the drive will automatically move the data to the reserve space and mark the old area as unusable.

Enterprise solid state is measured in endurance instead of MTBF, and the way they rate endurance is how many times the drive can be entirely rewritten before it fails. So the question is what is the quality of the solid state storage they soldered to the board?

I hate apple, but I assume they soldered in something that will last at a minimum of 5 years with normal consumer end usage. The thing I would actually complain about is the fact you can't replace it with a larger storage device. However, there are benefits in going the apple route which are weight and the device can be made thinner. Apple is all about thin and white even if their marketing department uses obese sheboons to sell their gay products.

[ - ] anon 2230333 0 points 11 monthsJun 1, 2024 09:23:47 ago (+0/-0)

I confirm this is correct.

[ - ] anon 1818735 0 points 11 monthsJun 1, 2024 08:56:37 ago (+0/-0)

Heh. Recently watched a video where a guy restored a development version of a Mac to operation, it had been deliberately damaged and then sold off by Apple to recyclers. Among other things the chips for the SSD had been harvested from the board, and he had to solder a new one on, partially restore the device, then desolder and modify the data on it in order to match it with the hardware. So it's not impossible to fix but thoroughly impractical.

[ - ] anon 4045005 0 points 11 monthsJun 1, 2024 08:31:14 ago (+1/-1)

A new MacBook is around 700 bucks. Not bad. Also, what is the big deal about soldering in a new part? If you know enough to know what is wrong with a MacBook, you should know enough to solder a new chip in.

[ + ] anon

[ - ] anon 1946117 0 points 11 monthsJun 1, 2024 12:57:59 ago (+0/-0)

It's not that easy.

[ + ] anon

[ - ] anon 4045005 0 points 11 monthsJun 1, 2024 14:18:36 ago (+0/-0)

Says who?

[ + ] anon

[ - ] anon 1946117 0 points 11 monthsJun 2, 2024 10:39:08 ago (+0/-0)

A wrong solder with the battery still connected can ruin it, right?

[ + ] anon

[ - ] anon 4045005 0 points 11 monthsJun 2, 2024 15:43:47 ago (+0/-0)

Remove the battery - they click in. Also, make sure it's grounded and you are also grounded before you do this type of work. If you have some plumbing, that is usually a good bet to be grounded that you can connect to. You can use a little copper braid to soak up the old solder, put in the new chip, then clip any points that are too long. If you fuck it up, it will be ruined. Watch some YouTube videos.

[ - ] anon 3699103 0 points 11 monthsJun 1, 2024 07:54:34 ago (+0/-0)

You can find people who can resolder a new drive in.

There are so many similar read to not own a Mac though.

One their value drops like a rock compared to PCs of similar hardware power of the time.

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