Retina Macbook 2015 Teardown

Re:Retina Macbook 2015 Teardown by ghshephard on Friday April 17, 2015 @03:03PM (#9396476)

Thanks - I watched the videos - it's more about the Unibody Aluminum design. I'm wondering why the memory and flash components are no longer modular, and if that's going to be the trend for everyone.

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Re:Retina Macbook 2015 Teardown by Artemis2 on Friday April 17, 2015 @03:37PM (#9396684)

The reason is the same: space. Not having standard physical interfaces to plug hardware in represents a huge gain in space.

For instance, if the MacBook had a standard SSD, it would need the following:

- A SATA controller chipset on the motherboard

- The physical connector on the motherboard

- The physical connector on the SSD

- A SSD controller designed for SATA

- Maybe even a plastic enclosure on some laptops

Instead, Apple can use a lower-level interface, embed the flash controller and directly put the NAND cells on the motherboard. That's two chips.

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