Nehal1802 t1_j4t2v5v wrote on January 18, 2023 at 1:40 AM

Reply to comment by Raymoundgh in Apple introduces new Mac mini with M2 and M2 Pro — more powerful, capable, and versatile than ever by TbonerT

So not supporting Apple but the whole “give us upgradable memory slots” is a little hard with the M series chips. The RAM/SSD/CPU/GPU is all on one chip. The design would make it impossible to allow upgrades.

Now a secondary RAM slot or SSD slot surely is possible. I’d be curious what that would do to the performance. I’m assuming part of your speed and battery life is due to everything being on one chip.

[deleted] t1_j4t3sk1 wrote on January 18, 2023 at 1:47 AM

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Nehal1802 t1_j4t9c47 wrote on January 18, 2023 at 2:26 AM

That’s true but I think that was more for the slimness of machines. The Mac Mini had the upgrade slots until the M series CPUs.

Take a look at RAM upgrades on an HP. I was recently looking at an HP Zbook Fury for work. Their RAM upgrade prices were ridiculous, even more than Apple. The kicker is that the HP had RAM upgrade slots. I think more manufacturers are charging crazy amounts for memory because they can get away with it. The people of Reddit might go ahead and open a laptop and upgrade the RAM but none of my relatives will do it even though it’s possible. They’d pay the manufacturer to do it. Lots of Windows laptops are also losing upgradable RAM slots.

Now the SSD issues including where you can’t retrieve data because of the link between the T2 chip and the SSD, that’s a dick move. Louis Rossman has a video on that. From what I gathered, Apples decision means you can’t in any way retrieve the data from a MacBook that has the T2 chip if the board dies.

MidgarsJanitor t1_j4x7mod wrote on January 18, 2023 at 10:04 PM

It's not for the "slimness of the machine" it's because of a unified memory architecture that's only achievable by combining components with the SoC. So many misinformed users here blasting Apple over something they don't understand at all.