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People Are Upgrading The M4 Mac Mini Whether Apple Likes It Or Not

aftermath.site People Are Upgrading The M4 Mac Mini Whether Apple Likes It Or Not - Aftermath

The new M4 Mac mini is a powerhouse with a huge storage limitation. But YouTubers like dosdude1 are fixing that the hard way.

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"People" = literally one guy who has the tools and skills to disassemble an SSD board. Sure, it does leave the door open to third parties doing this as a service. Kinda jumping the gun on this though.
- From the article this has lead a group to reverse engineer the proprietary board and start a Kickstarter to make it more accessible, which is pretty exciting (hopefully Apple doesn’t find a way to kill it)
  
  Looking forward to a Mac mini version.
- Are you stunned, shocked, or blasted?
  
  I'm stunned that they slammed Apple like this.
  
  I don't know what this is supposed to mean. I'm making a correction to the claim that more than one person is doing this and saying it's possible other companies could start manufacturing these parts.
- I’ve seen like at least a dozen tinkerer-youtubers done it in first 2 days, and I’m sure there are like hundreds of them in each country by now.
  
  It’s kinda clear to me that someone will come up with an adapter soon that anyone can buy and plug their SSDs easily.
Apple is literally like that landlord who’s stingy about turning the heating on… but with storage
- They know people will massively overpay for storage. Their entire company history has been severely overcharging for memory and storage space.
  
  It's why I bought Apple stocks long before I bought any Apple products. I had faith in Apple consumers.
- And memory.
  
  Yes, that too!
Good! Much as I begrudge apple as a company, I'm glad users are still finding ways to upgrade and maintain the tech they use
I highly doubt Apple gives a shit about the 0.001% of its customer base that is replacing soldered NAND modules.
“[Parts pairing] is completely unnecessary, has no benefit, and serves only to prevent users from easily swapping parts,” Collin told me.

Collin is wrong. Parts pairing totally kills the illegal parts market and I absolutely love that. Make stolen stuff utterly useless for criminals to eliminate the demand.

I love the new one where parts can be transplanted if the phone is not activation locked though.
I own Apple stock and an M4 Mini. Happy to see upgrade options.
This was a great article and the linked video was even better.

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