Mac mini Late 2018 Teardown

Re:Mac mini Late 2018 Teardown by masklinn on Friday November 09, 2018 @09:30AM (#18414568)

> I guess it matters less on a device like this where you could more easily use external storage, but still. I wish Apple stopped soldering in stuff and just made things a centimeter taller if that was the tradeoff.

Here it's a bit more than just that: T2 is the secure boot system, but also the SSD controller (and a few other I/O things).

They could have put an m.2 slot though.

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Re:Mac mini Late 2018 Teardown by protomyth on Friday November 09, 2018 @11:28AM (#18415588)

I do wish they had gone with m.2. It really feels like T2 is wasted in the Mac mini and just there to check a feature list. It doesn't even make much sense in a machine that is turned off instead of put to sleep.

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Re:Mac mini Late 2018 Teardown by fpoling on Friday November 09, 2018 @06:06PM (#18418777)

T2 is Apple’s SSD controller. I suppose Apple does not trust controllers from other manufacturers and has enough data to see that with T2 the storage is sufficiently realible not to warrant an option to replace it even at own service facilities.

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Re:Mac mini Late 2018 Teardown by protomyth on Friday November 09, 2018 @08:34PM (#18419417)

I assume they will have an expandable solution for the New Mac Pro which should of been put into the mini. This lack of repairablity is getting old.

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