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That's an awesome idea to get a bricked MacBook Neo really fast because those idiots soldered the SSD inside

Apple has been soldering the SSD into MacBooks for over 10 years now, and most 10 year old MacBooks still have a working SSD.

Not if you're powerusing it like in the Article and relying heavily on Swap.

Also there are countless reports of bricked M1 8GB MacBook Airs that are bricked because the SSD used up it's write cycles

https://youtu.be/0qbrLiGY4Cg?si=mjKn2oLjqAb36hPU

That's not what the video insinuates.

Yes you're right. I meaned a different video, but I can't find it right now. I've looked it up, and back then MacOS had a bug which exacerbated that issue. Here is an article

https://www.macrumors.com/2021/02/23/m1-mac-users-report-exc...

You originally stated "Also there are countless reports of bricked M1 8GB MacBook Airs that are bricked because the SSD used up it's write cycles"

Do you have a source for these "countless bricked SSD's"?

Here was the Video I meant back then.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=MZuv4TIjk-I&pp=ygURZGVhZCBNYWN...

Not sure about the ssd in particular but the neo is apparently pretty modular

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k7Lv7f-5CQ

Fantastic tear down. Thank you. Amazing for Apple. I hope this is the trend going forward but probably not. But still a gazillion screws? I just replaced the keyboard for my old hp elitebook with two screws.

I don't care about a gazillion screws, if it's serviceable in the End.

If Apple would build their laptops serviceable like ThinkPads I would buy one today.

It seems like they’re starting to learn the cost of being too integrated.

They’ve slowly been moving towards making it easier to repair individual broken parts. I’m very happy to see that a new keyboard doesn’t require replacing the entire top case. That was just crazy.

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