| ▲ | cromka 2 hours ago | |||||||||||||
Absolutely not. SSD can be resoldered and that service is actually becoming popular and inexpensive. It's not just MacBooks, nearly all laptops have SSD and RAM soldered. This will become a totally normal thing in a few years from now. | ||||||||||||||
| ▲ | wtallis 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |||||||||||||
Soldered storage is extremely uncommon for laptops not from Apple. You pretty much only find it in very low-end Chromebook type hardware that's using eMMC for cost reasons, and a small fraction of more expensive Qualcomm-based laptops that use UFS for no good reason. All mainstream PC laptops use M.2 NVMe storage. | ||||||||||||||
| ▲ | nanliu 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |||||||||||||
It's on chip for the m series and not soldered to the motherboard. | ||||||||||||||
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