Honestly my M2 MacBook Pro feels like it’s built to last. I paid a lot, but I feel like I’ve gotten great value out of it and genuinely enjoy using it. And it’s still going strong.
yeah until you want to upgrade or repair something, then it’s fuck you buy another one. I get the apple premium, what I don’t get is the scorn they show for people who have purchased their overpriced hardware when they want to upgrade it. that’s just insulting - you gotta buy it with everything maxed out on APPLE ram, ssds etc.,
It’s not like Apple uses a different controller, or that they invented a different communication standard. They just put the same communication pins from the same controller on a different physical connector, and charge you 10x for the replacement part. It’s why boards like this can work at all:
yeah until you want to upgrade or repair something, then it’s fuck you buy another one. I get the apple premium, what I don’t get is the scorn they show for people who have purchased their overpriced hardware when they want to upgrade it. that’s just insulting - you gotta buy it with everything maxed out on APPLE ram, ssds etc.,
Apple making a proprietary pinout for NVME is what will keep me from ever giving them money.
https://assistenciaapplebrasilia.com.br/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/Apple-Propietary-SSD.png
It’s not like Apple uses a different controller, or that they invented a different communication standard. They just put the same communication pins from the same controller on a different physical connector, and charge you 10x for the replacement part. It’s why boards like this can work at all:
https://bartechtv.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/10/nvme2016macbookPRO-1-678x381.jpg
If Apple wasn’t using standard NVMe controller communication protocols and controllers, these adapter boards wouldn’t work at all.
yup. disgusting.