What I find outrageous is that consumers accept the fact that their expensive new Mac has become a non upgradable black box. Apparently, years of exposure to the dependency from tight closed cellphones did the job.
Long gone are the days of the Apple II; I still recall it being labeled as the best possible home computer for being so open to expansion and tinkering.
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
#32But can you add 32GB ram? Then I'm interested...!
Re: Chinese engineers cracked Apple's M1 chip and successfully upgrade RAM and SSD
#33Is this a machine translation? It’s really hard to follow some parts. The site is full of clickbait ads and no real info
I was particularly amused by this line:
> Think about the official upgrade of 8GB of memory to 16GB, you need 1500 soft sister coins.
Re: Chinese engineers cracked Apple's M1 chip and successfully upgrade RAM and SSD
#34Earlier quoted context omitted.
> 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?
You'd be surprised what chinese smart phone repair shops in Shenzen can do with tiny parts. Soldering Macbook BGA parts will be trivial in comparison. I don't think there is a western equivalent to this though.
Re: Chinese engineers cracked Apple's M1 chip and successfully upgrade RAM and SSD
#35What I find outrageous is that consumers accept the fact that their expensive new Mac has become a non upgradable black box. Apparently, years of exposure to the dependency from tight closed cellphones did the job. Long gone are the days of the Apple II; I still recall it being labeled as the best possible home computer for being so open to expansion and tinkering.
How people expect to, at the same time,
having thin, light, fanless laptop, and it being fully upgradeable with replaceable parts
i think the people who want that are either delusional, or are just not the target audience
looking at the sales, it's probably only just people who like to complain at Apple for doing what they can't do
Re: Chinese engineers cracked Apple's M1 chip and successfully upgrade RAM and SSD
#36> But now someone has cracked the M1 chip, which means that you can upgrade the memory even if you don't pass the official Apple. 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.
It looks like they've dremmelled off the heatspreader, so I think I'd agree with that - cracked like a nut.
Re: Chinese engineers cracked Apple's M1 chip and successfully upgrade RAM and SSD
#37The pedantic in me will just obsess over the fact that the CPU cover plate is now cut in half and it will now affect heat dissipation and cause crashes.
Re: Chinese engineers cracked Apple's M1 chip and successfully upgrade RAM and SSD
#38The click bait and advertising in that "news" website is pure cancer
I left immediately when it showed a fake ‘update your VPN’ iOS system notification. Didn’t even get to read the article.
Actually this news is still not confirmed well. There are less tech sites talk about that.
And since I use ads blocker, I have no problem with that.
Re: Chinese engineers cracked Apple's M1 chip and successfully upgrade RAM and SSD
#39Actually this news is still not confirmed well since there is no evidence. However with all these customized iDevices things from Shenzhen guys, I think it's likely true.
Wait for further investigation.
Re: Chinese engineers cracked Apple's M1 chip and successfully upgrade RAM and SSD
#40What I find outrageous is that consumers accept the fact that their expensive new Mac has become a non upgradable black box. Apparently, years of exposure to the dependency from tight closed cellphones did the job. Long gone are the days of the Apple II; I still recall it being labeled as the best possible home computer for being so open to expansion and tinkering.
I've got this old HP-42s calculator here in front of me, which has no viable upgrade path, and adjusted for inflation it was more expensive than an entry level M1.
I have an HP-67 and an HP-97 as well, neither of which has any upgrade path and they each cost half as much as a new economy car when they came out.