People Are Upgrading The M4 Mac Mini Whether Apple Likes It Or Not (aftermath.site)
from Joker@sh.itjust.works to apple_enthusiast@lemmy.world on 14 Nov 21:33
https://sh.itjust.works/post/28102145

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Cris_Color@lemmy.world on 14 Nov 22:00 next collapse

Good! Much as I begrudge apple as a company, I’m glad users are still finding ways to upgrade and maintain the tech they use

oxjox@lemmy.ml on 14 Nov 22:05 next collapse

“People” = literally one guy who has the tools and skills to disassemble an SSD board. Sure, it does leave the door open to third parties doing this as a service. Kinda jumping the gun on this though.

Doom4535@lemmy.sdf.org on 14 Nov 22:52 next collapse

From the article this has lead a group to reverse engineer the proprietary board and start a Kickstarter to make it more accessible, which is pretty exciting (hopefully Apple doesn’t find a way to kill it)

B0rax@feddit.org on 15 Nov 13:29 collapse

Looking forward to a Mac mini version.

GBU_28@lemm.ee on 14 Nov 23:17 next collapse

Are you stunned, shocked, or blasted?

Alexstarfire@lemmy.world on 14 Nov 23:54 next collapse

I’m stunned that they slammed Apple like this.

GBU_28@lemm.ee on 15 Nov 01:03 collapse

Lol I love that someone downvoted us. We are joking about the same exact symptom the top comment is referring to: ridiculous article premises and silly titles.

Alexstarfire@lemmy.world on 15 Nov 01:18 collapse

Meh, I don’t care how the votes turn out. I don’t post for upvotes.

lemmeBe@sh.itjust.works on 15 Nov 11:30 collapse

Sorry, guys - I had to. 😁

oxjox@lemmy.ml on 15 Nov 12:08 collapse

I don’t know what this is supposed to mean. I’m making a correction to the claim that more than one person is doing this and saying it’s possible other companies could start manufacturing these parts.

GBU_28@lemm.ee on 15 Nov 14:29 collapse

Many articles make headlines of the experience of one or few people and make it seem live a pervasive trend or situation.

I’m making a joke that many articles use ridiculous adjectives like stunned, when the subject of the headline is certainly not.

It’s a joke about silly modern journalism, not you

oxjox@lemmy.ml on 15 Nov 15:48 collapse

Pft. Ain’t that the truth. Gotcha journalism has been around for over a hundred years and we still suck it up.

Ugurcan@lemmy.world on 15 Nov 17:28 collapse

I’ve seen like at least a dozen tinkerer-youtubers done it in first 2 days, and I’m sure there are like hundreds of them in each country by now.

It’s kinda clear to me that someone will come up with an adapter soon that anyone can buy and plug their SSDs easily.

darthsid@lemmy.world on 14 Nov 23:03 next collapse

Apple is literally like that landlord who’s stingy about turning the heating on… but with storage

halcyoncmdr@lemmy.world on 14 Nov 23:44 next collapse

They know people will massively overpay for storage. Their entire company history has been severely overcharging for memory and storage space.

stardust@lemmy.ca on 15 Nov 03:13 collapse

It’s why I bought Apple stocks long before I bought any Apple products. I had faith in Apple consumers.

Alexstarfire@lemmy.world on 14 Nov 23:54 collapse

And memory.

darthsid@lemmy.world on 15 Nov 06:07 collapse

Yes, that too!

BaroqueInMind@lemmy.one on 15 Nov 02:07 next collapse

This was a great article and the linked video was even better.

fourish@lemmy.world on 15 Nov 06:07 next collapse

I own Apple stock and an M4 Mini. Happy to see upgrade options.

KoalaUnknown@lemmy.world on 15 Nov 17:46 collapse

I highly doubt Apple gives a shit about the 0.001% of its customer base that is replacing soldered NAND modules.