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Is that the SSD soldered directly to the board? If so, that's a big disappointment considering the amount of free space in there.

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It is soldered to the board since 2016 (on portables), so no surprises there. Since T2, it is only flash chips anyway, the drive controller is inside the T2.

So yes, make sure your backup procedure is good.

They nuked the lifeboat connector as well that was potentially useful for actually recovering data if your SSD died. If you lose your CPU, you now lose your SSD.

Is losing a CPU a common enough failure-case that it makes sense to implement fail-safes for? I would think that's pretty low on the list of likely causes of failure.

I mean it's more than CPU - losing power regulators, or anything else that causes your machine not to boot to a DFU mode. Watch Louis Rossman's channel for long enough and you'll see how many possible failure modes there are.

My 2014 MBP died a few years back of power regulator cause, but I was able to pull the SSD and image it in the case that they were unable to repair the device.

As noted below, it's a lot more than the CPU.

I lost three Macbooks in two years from USB controller blow outs, which is a known issue because the part they used is lousy, and it took out the entire storage with it. I had some backups thankfully, but I know people who have lost everything.

I'm fine with them integrating the SSD into the mainboard, just wish they offered a slot in there to add some additional storage later.

Everything is soldered now, your ownership is basically the same of an iPhone or iPad now.

Ownership (and adjacently right-to-repair) and upgradeability are two separate problems, let's not conflate them.

This rig has two PCI Express ports right on the back. Upgradability seems OK.

AFAIK, the ARM Macs have no eGPU support.

That's covered in the article. It's a lack of AMD ARM drivers.

That's not really conclusively proven at the moment.

Wow, such empty!

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