• Cid Vicious@sh.itjust.works
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    17 days ago

    Abandoned mine several years ago. Kind of a shame, they were a good option for a while for people who weren’t windows fans but didn’t want to run linux full time. Apple just doesn’t really have any offerings for people who want a desktop that’s upgradeable, but don’t want to drop the money on a Mac Pro.

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        16 days ago

        It’s replaceable, it’s not upgradable.

        Apple doesn’t use standard NVMe M.2 drives. The controller is built into the SoC rather than being on the storage device itself.

        • A_Random_Idiot@lemmy.world
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          15 days ago

          it never ceases to amaze me the amount of time, energy and money apple spends engineering things to be worse for customers.

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            15 days ago

            It’s more cost effective to integrate the controller.

            Being worse for customers is just a happy accident.

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              15 days ago

              You and I both know that Apple doesnt do this shit for cost efficiency.

              They do it to make make shit worse for consumers and “unauthorized” repair services.