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Chinese engineers cracked Apple's M1 chip and successfully upgrade RAM and SSD

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Re: Chinese engineers cracked Apple's M1 chip and successfully upgrade RAM and SSD

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Post by baybal2 »

dan1234 wrote: post #9

There's not much evidence that any upgrade actually happened. The photo show someone has managed to desolder the RAM & SSD chips, which isn't really news. Also, looks like they only upgrade the 8GB/256SSD to 16G/1TB SSD, which is a supported configuration, so at best this is someone skilled at soldering BGA parts. I'd be more interested if someone had managed to get 32GB RAM working.

> so at best this is someone skilled at soldering BGA parts.

It is, but I am afraid the next thing Apple will do now would be to DRM the memory chips.

> I'd be more interested if someone had managed to get 32GB RAM working.

I believe there is no 16GB LPDDR4 on the market at the moment.

Re: Chinese engineers cracked Apple's M1 chip and successfully upgrade RAM and SSD

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Post by meibo »

baybal2 wrote: post #13
dan1234 wrote: post #9

There's not much evidence that any upgrade actually happened. The photo show someone has managed to desolder the RAM & SSD chips, which isn't really news. Also, looks like they only upgrade the 8GB/256SSD to 16G/1TB SSD, which is a supported configuration, so at best this is someone skilled at soldering BGA parts. I'd be more interested if someone had managed to get 32GB RAM working.

> so at best this is someone skilled at soldering BGA parts. It is, but I am afraid the next thing Apple will do now would be to DRM the memory chips. > I'd be more interested if someone had managed to get 32GB RAM working. I believe there is no 16GB LPDDR4 on the market at the moment.

> It is, but I am afraid the next thing Apple will do now would be to DRM the memory chips.

They already do that(check the other article on the frontpage), but at they moment, they still give you software to re-DRM it :)

Re: Chinese engineers cracked Apple's M1 chip and successfully upgrade RAM and SSD

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Post by ribit »

baybal2 wrote: post #13
dan1234 wrote: post #9

There's not much evidence that any upgrade actually happened. The photo show someone has managed to desolder the RAM & SSD chips, which isn't really news. Also, looks like they only upgrade the 8GB/256SSD to 16G/1TB SSD, which is a supported configuration, so at best this is someone skilled at soldering BGA parts. I'd be more interested if someone had managed to get 32GB RAM working.

> so at best this is someone skilled at soldering BGA parts. It is, but I am afraid the next thing Apple will do now would be to DRM the memory chips. > I'd be more interested if someone had managed to get 32GB RAM working. I believe there is no 16GB LPDDR4 on the market at the moment.

> It is, but I am afraid the next thing Apple will do now would > be to DRM the memory chips.

Why "afraid"? I hope you are not considering resoldering BGA chips on tightly integrated machine a viable upgrade path?

Re: Chinese engineers cracked Apple's M1 chip and successfully upgrade RAM and SSD

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Post by ribit »

ksec wrote: post #8

And this remind us the future of Apple Desktop Personal Computing with No upgrade or serviceable parts. Along with insane Mark Up of RAM and Storage. The only good thing is the possibility of a 12" MacBook Air at $799 in the near future.

Macs didn't have any user-upgradeable parts since 2016..
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