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Re:M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short... by apricot on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @08:24AM (#26249558)
> I really don't understand why Apple is apparently incapable of making these laptops use standard, replaceable m.2 NVMe SSDs.

Because if they did that, users would be able to replace them.

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Re:M1 Mac owners are experiencing high SSD writes over short... by shawnz on Wednesday February 24, 2021 @08:30AM (#26249617)
If that was the concern they could just solder a plain NVMe drive. Blocking user repairs doesn't require the creation of a whole new purpose-built storage controller interface, so that can't explain their rationale here.
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