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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..
Isn't "iMac (Retina 5K, 27-inch, 2020)" actually the current release version you can buy from the Apple Store?
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..
Is this a machine translation? It’s really hard to follow some parts. The site is full of clickbait ads and no real info
> Think about the official upgrade of 8GB of memory to 16GB, you need 1500 soft sister coins.
"soft sister coins" seems to be RMB (人民币). When I put those Chinese characters into Google Translator, it gives me the phrase "soft sister coin".
I'm not sure exactly whats happening with this translation or how the M1 was 'cracked' maybe they mean physically ?
I really think they mean physically.
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> 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?
I have no idea what the cost of desoldering and resoldering the modules is, but given Apple's markup on RAM and SSD, it might make it worthwhile, just as there are many shops doing repairs on iPhones.
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> 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?
What do the chips and BGA soldering labor cost?
> Chinese engineers cracked ... I feel this is becoming the new "British scientists ..." meme