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So if the SSD breaks I can throw away my >2.5k$ Laptop? Wonderful.

If that happened to me I would probably have Apple either fix it or give me a new one, but you could throw it away if you wanted.

SSD's life expectancy shouldn't be a concern. It's more likely you'll have to replace a fan or screen before the SSD if you want to keep using the laptop.

That really depends on how often you write to the drive. I don't have specs for the mac SSD, but the EVO 950 pro which is in a similar category has an endurance of 400TB. Quite a lot but you can use up a surprising amount of data on temporary writes.

400TB adds up to writing more than 200GB, every day, during 5 years. That's a lot.

On top of that, manufacturers are conservative on these ratings. There's a test somewhere on the web where they tested life expectancy of an EVO 840, and it took 800TB before failure. The new one could be even better in that regard.

A full build at work generates over 200GB of output, and that's before considering things like intermediate writes to the page file or temporary files.

The codebase is very large so this is unusual, but its not a trivial concern for people with large workloads. I imagine video editors have disk usage of a similar magnitude.

> A full build at work generates over 200GB of output

Impressive.

MacBooks have long been tending towards disposable computers. That's why Apple have been working hard to make them recyclable...

Still, Apple targets the hipster market who think nothing of blowing $2.5k on a computer every few years...

(disclaimer: some sarcasm was used writing this comment)

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