On Dec 1, 9:29 pm, Moandji Ezana <[email protected]> wrote: > Apple fans: what's the rationale for disallowing SSD upgrades? > > http://www.9to5mac.com/38937/apple-makes-photofast-stop-sales-of-spee...
The SSD in the new MacBook Air isn't meant to be upgraded by the user. Check the Apple manuals - the MacBook Pro ones, for instance, include a section on how to replace the hard disk and memory; the new Air ones don't. Why? To save space, the RAM is soldered directly onto the motherboard, and the "hard disk" is a SSD module with a proprietary connection, sitting directly on the motherboard, too. According to Ars, the company with the replacement SSD reverse- engineered the SSD connector (http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/ 2010/11/apple-kills-super-fast-macbook-air-ssd-replacement.ars). This alone gives Apple reason enough to shut this down. We'll see how Apple will change the MacBook Pros in the future - I hope they stay upgradeable. I don't mind maxing out the RAM when buying one because this doesn't get noticeably faster over the three years or so (it's just more expensive this way), but hard disks / SSD do get faster and bigger. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "The Java Posse" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/javaposse?hl=en.
