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hey there Apple in case you didn't know this is an SSD normally users can swap

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these to repair or upgrade their computers but according to some articles

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we've found online there is no way to swap the SSD on the new expensive Mac

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Studio of course the truth is a little

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bit more complicated than that and in fact there are some reports that you can

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in fact swap out the SSD in the Mac Studio so naturally I shelled out thank

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you o nearly $3,000 for a second one so we could test

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it out for you because I mean like there's no way that Apple would do

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something this anti-consumer would they no never I mean especially not months

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after that big splash about repairability right that would be crazy

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below naturally before we begin we have to get our Mac Studio opened up so is

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that it great paper packaging though I love that I love this little

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spring-loaded box at the bottom it's made completely out of cardboard they're

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packaging it Engineers are super cool I'm not going to go through this too

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much with you guys you can get it with the M1 Max you can get it with the M1

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Pro you can get it with the M1 Ultra it's got Thunderbolt 4 it's got USB type

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a 10 gig Ethernet HDMI out of course

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DisplayPort over Thunderbolt you got USB and SD card reader at the front and

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it comes with a power cable that is check this out fully removable wow

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that's a feature now look at that oh it's kind of an antifeature cuz now I

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can't lift up my computer by a power cord without it falling down oh we

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should have done it the monitor way this has been covered to death so I'm not going to harp on it too much but getting

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into the Mac Studio is a bit of a pain in the butt they could have put the

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screw somewhere accessible but instead they're under a little rubber foot that

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you're going to have to bung up in order to get at them what's the best way to

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get under this stupid thing so it looks like there's there's a spot that you can

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get under see like right here oh look at that there's a specific spot I hear a

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lot of arguments for why Apple should be protective of its products making sure

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that only qualified Personnel work on them but a lot of those arguments become

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completely invalid when you consider that you wouldn't need to be specially

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qualified if they didn't have special bull that you need to know in order to

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open it this is a problem that Apple engineered thanks Apple I haven't

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actually other than popping in on Anthony while he was shooting ShortCircuit looked at the inside I always

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tend to try to sequester myself when there's a big new release that I haven't

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had a chance to see in person yet have I lost a screw already that's okay I'll

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just be able to order a replacement easily from Apple

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got to give credit they've got style matte black pcbs all the time wait are

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these they're they're completely different wait what oh wa did we just

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discover that there are different revisions of the Mac Studio power supply

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are these the exact same skew I thought so you double check yeah what the crap

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these are completely different pcbs this is not just Apple sourced from two

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different factories this is different

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construction techniques even oh interesting this one says light on power

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technology and this is from Delta so if I had to guess I think what probably

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happened is Apple put out for qualifying designs from multiple vendors as you

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would because you want to get competitive quotes you never just get one quote they got multiple validated

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designs and instead of just choosing one

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they're dual sourcing right from the start which if I had to guess I would

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say because this isn't going to be an especially high volume product compared

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to something like say an iPhone is just making sure that by having two sources

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their supply is less likely to be interrupted by random covid shutdowns or

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whatever else the case may be fascinating okay I confirmed it they're

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exactly the same specs uh which ones which oh mine has the Shmo okay cuz

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they're probably knowing Apple they're probably chipped to should we switch the

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power supplies screw it we might as well we might as well why don't we just start

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with that I I'm not even going to keep disassembling it for now I'm just going

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to install this and see if it'll boot let's find out if you can switch your power supply I mean that's what the

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people want to know right that's why we're here doing what Apple could easily

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document and tell us but

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don't oh Alex yeah what's going on what

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do you mean what is this PC monitor where's my studio monitor if you

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want I can go grab it look how long this power cord is Alex that's a DisplayPort

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cable well I could plug it in at any distance I wanted who needs it look at

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that confirmed you can swap between the two

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different models of power supply now this is where Anthony

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rightfully got really excited during his tear down on ShortCircuit because it

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was almost immediately obvious that Apple has not one but two SSD slots

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including one that's unpopulated that's kind of cool check this out they're

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doing power here so all your data pins will

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definitely be connected before power supplied to the drive that's pretty sick

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actually before we go much further there's one other bit of speculation we'd like to put to rest some users

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online observed that their SSD was in the right slot and wouldn't work anymore

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if they moved it over to the left leading them to think that maybe this

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chip right here was an SSD controller or somehow integral to the functioning of

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the SSD but you can see that our unit in fact both of our units have the SSD

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installed on the left and there's no chip down here so my guess would be that

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this has more to do with the front iio and less to do with the ssds because as

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we know Apple puts their SSD controllers directly on their M1 so so these are

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going to be wired up directly to the S so I got to give myself credit for

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nailing that this wasn't an SSD before I think anyone else did I was on W show

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right after I had checked out Anthony's ShortCircuit and I was like I don't see a controller or Dam on there that's

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right ladies and gentlemen we've got four Nan flash packages and that's all

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she wrote which is probably actually why it has two slots in the first place

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because in order to hit that 8 terabytes of capacity they're going to need yeah

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at least eight packages with current technology as far as I'm aware Hey

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where's that Sabin uh 8 tab SSD yes confirmed Sabin is using eight packages

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to hit 8 terab so that's probably why we haven't seen any loaded with two already

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because the 8 tab one is so expensive and not too many people are going to be ordering it and ripping it open enough

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about that though ready to do an SSD

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swap unlike our power supplies everything about our flash storage

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modules appears to be identical other than the colors of tape that we put on

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them so I'm expecting this to go off without a hitch as long as Apple didn't

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lock it but I want to talk in a bit more depth about why I called this a flash

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storage module rather than an SSD an SSD

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has three main components flash storage so those are the chips right there you

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can see the analoges right there between the two often a dam cache though that's

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not a given and a controller but apple

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is conspicuously missing both a cach and a controller that's because Apple moved

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this from the SSD so this is not a full SSD onto their M1 silicon and there are

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a number of good reasons to do this security performance and perhaps most

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importantly cost one of these controllers is going to be a couple of

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dollars on every single unit putting it in the Silicon of the die means it is

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now pennies now in the long ago past allocating diarrhea to anything other

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than compute and connectivity would have been Unthinkable but over time as trans

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resistors have continued to shrink and especially now as modular and chiplet

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Designs are becoming more and more popular adding a little bit of die area

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for something like an SSD controller isn't as much of a problem and it's very

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clear that apple does not care how large

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their die gets for their M1 silicon what this means though is that we can't think

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of these things as ssds and it makes

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sense that you can't just willy-nilly swap the flash storage around because

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you also cannot do that on a regular SSD

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because unlike a hard drive bits are not stored in any kind of sequential fashion

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and only the controller knows where every zero and one is supposed to be

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however there should be no reason that changing out the SSD and completely

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formatting it fresh shouldn't work so let's go ahead and proceed one nice

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thing is that it looks like these little I would have initially thought they're

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thermal pads but now I'm feeling like they're more Emi Shields they're still

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sticky which means I should be able to just reuse it very nice love it I love

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that I don't have to like basically reassemble this thing at all in order to

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test it uh you should probably uh put the other bit of the cage in there first

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uh fine I'll put that in ah it's probably fine yeah it's fine could I

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just get a see of like A4 paper or something well it's not on so oh is it

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not I see lights flashing inside yes it's saying SOS oh it's mad oh right cuz

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I swapped to the SSD yeah oh balls you'd think there would be something on screen

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instead of just flashing a red thing I mean they clearly know what the problem is there's a there's a blink code here

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yeah and in the past they actually had recovery environments so you could you

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know reflash all of the stuff on here it would just connect to the internet in

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the recovery environment do all the stuff for you you can't anymore oh why

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it's a great question so what do you do well you have to read this little

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document here and use another Mac you have to have another Mac to restore your

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Mac you have to have another Mac it's infuriating it's like the way Apple

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treats their customers oh you didn't buy enough of our products

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well that was creepy with accurate yeah like I'm their customer aren't am I not

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oh you're not not a real customer plug

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the Mac computers together with a supported USBC cable what supported USBC

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cable does it have to be an apple one or what I don't think so please tell me

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there's no BS chip in it they really put the fu in dfu mode the fact you have to

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own a second magc to do this it will take a little while for this to fully

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you know install the OS well that's perfect cuz I have a conference call

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right now but wait that means we've made it at least as far as that swapping it

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worked 100% of the time for us yeah so unlike the people who said that they did

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have difficulty with some of their swaps we managed a 100% success rate sample

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size of two yep okay VB

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we're back and it worked it sort of worked oh it didn't work and then I did

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it again exactly the same way and then it worked oh okay well It ultimately

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worked which answers one question which is can you change out your SSD if due to

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a a defect or whatever else and the answer is yes but it still leaves one

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question pending what if you wanted to upgrade say go from 512 gigs to

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4 terab if you can swap two 512 gig

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modules then surely nothing would prevent you from putting in a larger one

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would it let's find out that's interesting I had said that I thought

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power was being delivered via these two bands right here and I had said oh

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that's such a cool design power's not connected until it's plugged all the way

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in I was wrong about that it looks like those are both just for grounding and

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since they're not hot swappable there'd be no reason to care about power not being connected until later anyway so

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just want to correct that are you ready

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theoretically this is a 1 tab Mac Studio now well you probably need to do the

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whole dfu thing again uh well you know sure let's just let's just see maybe

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it'll magically work it didn't wait will this work shouldn't if this works that's

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kind of awesome that means third parties would be able to make these flash

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modules conceivably and you could actually have cheap SSD upgrades that

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would be awesome flash module upgrades well it's an SSD upgrade if you update

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the flash of an SSD installing system holy

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crap holy crap is this going to work did

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we already talk about how uh Scotty from strange Parts managed to change out the

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flash on an iPhone like oh yeah and it just detected it he just plugged it in

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to a restore and it worked which shows you that even with all of Apple really

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so even with Apple's s

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so security things that they do like on

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iPhones this works but they

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specifically go out of their way to prevent you from doing it on the Mac

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Studio now technically we have not tried

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just putting a higher capacity single module in it's possible that might work

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has anyone tried that yet other people have tried it and it's never worked

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unreal because you know Apple has the tools to change this right there is

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absolutely no way that Apple produces

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these main boards and hard loocks them

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forever to a particular capacitive flash

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module in fact the fact that there is no

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logic on the flash module is even less

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reason for this to be locked down in any way because the actual controller any

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any security reason that they might provide for doing this is all on the so

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anyway they're just flash it's just ones

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and zeros I was almost ready to be

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impressed now I'm just super pissed off

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and you should be too whether you're an Apple customer or not an Apple customer

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this kind of crap affects you because as Apple does so does the rest of the

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industry you know what's particularly cool about this um nothing you know like

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the 980 Pro how much do you think it is to go from half a terabyte to a terabyte

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I don't know like 40 bucks 50 bucks it's 80 bucks for them how much do you think

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it is for apple on this I don't know $150 $200

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$200 and that is why apple does not want you

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upgrading your own flash module that and you those are the only two reasons man

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in researching this I read some of the worst possible takes you know you got

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people talking about how well the M1 is architect different and that's why they

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need to do it this way as though Apple didn't design it from the ground up as

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though Apple had a gun to their head that they have to design it like this

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there's nothing else to do Apple locks it through firmware there's no reason

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they have to do that but they do it anyway and unless their customers make a

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great big stink about it they're just going to keep on doing this kind of

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thing by the way when I say they customers I mean me too I just bought

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