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Re:Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if inte... by adolph on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @01:29PM (#29084484)
What cable? As far as I can recall, everything not directly soldered since about 2013 was ssd mounted to motherboard using either M.2 or a similar proprietary connector. I suspect it was Cook-ish financial engineering and that trademark Apple hubris (that they finally got over to re-add ports in the most recent MBP).
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Re:Apple Silicon Macs can't boot from external drive if inte... by aluminussoma on Tuesday November 02, 2021 @02:03PM (#29085074)
Here's an older thread on the cable: https://discussions.apple.com/thread/7794520

This was pre-2013. So perhaps the proprietary connector was a reaction to the cable?

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