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Re:Apple's iMessage Avoids EU's Digital Markets Act Regulation by crazygringo on Tuesday February 13, 2024 @08:31PM (#39365252)
Extraordinarily few people reach the cycle limit of the SSD on their Mac. That's not something to worry about for probably 99.999% of people, so it's just a weird thing to bring up.

And how do you know you're not seeing many old MacBooks? The MBA was launched over a decade and a half ago and it still looks almost identical to a casual observer.

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Re:Apple's iMessage Avoids EU's Digital Markets Act Regulation by alberto180 on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @03:30AM (#39367755)
That's why there are so many reports about M1 Notebooks dying after 3/4 years out there.

There are huge noticeable differences between a 10 year MBA and a recent one

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Re:Apple's iMessage Avoids EU's Digital Markets Act Regulation by crazygringo on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @09:52AM (#39370406)
Except there aren't reports of that. Just tried googling and couldn't find anything about SSD failure actually happening. What I did find was some fearmongering back in 2021 about whether it might become a thing, but it seems like it was entirely hypothetical and never actually happened.

Also the M1 has only been around for a little over 3 years. They can't be dying after 4 years because they're not that old.

Where are you getting all this misinformation from? And why are you motivated to be repeating it?

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Re:Apple's iMessage Avoids EU's Digital Markets Act Regulation by alberto180 on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @06:00PM (#39376790)
Then try again. Rossmann Made a video about it, here is another article talking about it https://www.sir-apfelot.de/en/ssd-failures-in-macbook-models...
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Re:Apple's iMessage Avoids EU's Digital Markets Act Regulation by danaris on Wednesday February 14, 2024 @11:07AM (#39371539)
You may be thinking of the bugs that were present in the very first generation of M1s, that caused them to erroneously display a wear level much higher than they were actually experiencing.

And as long as you have the Silver color option, a MacBook Air from 2023 looks very much like a MacBook Air from 2014 if you're not stopping and looking closely at it.

If you have one of the colored ones, those date back to 2018 with, again, a very similar design to today's.

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