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15-Inch MacBook Pro With Touch Bar Has Non-Removable SSD

I thought they were non replaceable already since years.. don't get the fuzz folks!
My Mac Pro has a non replaceable SSD too, and does it bother me? not a second.
 
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I dont see anyone complaining about non removable storage in iphone or ipad... jeez. we're living in post removable storage era. get your self some storrage arrays for local backups and start using icloud.
 
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robeddie said:
Upgrading a hard drive has almost always been a simple thing with macs throughout time. I have done it on almost every single mac I've ever owned. To remove that flexibility now (for no other reason than greed?) is an abomination.
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abomination LOL...do you really think greed is the only reason? then why did they allow it to be upgradable on other models, including the non-touchbar 13inch? hard drives are dead, welcome to the new era of computers

also, components such as hard drives and RAM were considered "user serviceable" parts and would not void your warranty. so you were "allowed" to replace those. those days have been over for a while now.

I'm willing to bet that there is hardware in there for the Touchbar taking up the extra space, plus as a bonus it is faster having it soldered to the MLB.
 
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RedWing512 said:
Different strokes for different folks. I very seriously doubt that your average Joe would care whether or not everything is soldered in place.
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Indeed, at purchase time they won't care. When Joe fills his lowest size/cost drive with movies and games and his likewise clueless buddies tell him he can just upgrade the drive... then he will care.

I have worked in IT for over 20 years. In my experience, the most common replacement item is the hard drive due to 1 failure and 2 to increase space, and 3 to improve performance. These options have been effectively removed by Apple.

In addition people have leveraged small disk sizes in the front end by purchasing less storage and then upgrading later. With this latest gem of news, you should now purchase no less than 1 TB to make your machine somewhat future resistant. That raises the cost significantly IMO.
 
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avanpelt said:
I'll be damned! I'm glad to know I can bump the storage up to 1 TB down the road. And here I've thought for the last two years that the SSD was not replaceable. Thanks for enlightening me!
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Here's the link for the Transintl upgrade on the 2015 mbp (the 2014 and others are avail as well)
http://www.transintl.com/super-blade-flash-storage-ssd/macbook-pro-early-mid-2015.html

And here's the link for the OWC upgrades:
https://eshop.macsales.com/shop/ssd/owc/macbook-pro-retina-display/2013-2014-2015
 
tubeexperience said:
The new MacBook Pro(s) are throwaway computers.

Is your SSD full and do you want to upgrade? Tough luck: you can't upgrade with a bigger SSD.

Do you want expand the storage with expansion drives? Tough luck because new MacBook Pro doesn't have SD slot either.

Did you have your data on the SSD when the logic board failed? Tough luck because you are not getting that data back.
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But they are environmentally friendly. As you throw your nice laptop away in 2 years, they can crush it and use it to sell you a new one.
 
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"I felt a great disturbance in the Force, as if millions of voices suddenly cried out in terror..."
 
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tubeexperience said:
Wrong again.


"Why is it that some people can walk into their local Apple Store with a broken MacBook and walk away with a free replacement, and other people are turned away, with Apple claiming the repair is due to user error… even if it isn’t?

It has less to do with whether or not you actually voided your warranty than if Apple thinks they can prove you voided your warranty. And the most important tool Apple uses to prove you’re responsible for the damage to your own machine? It’s a tool that inspects dents.

The guys over at Tested spoke to an Apple Certified Macintosh Technician, or ACMT. An ACMT is a technician who works at an Apple Authorized Service Center, where people can get warranty service when they don’t live near an Apple Store. In other words, this is a person with an intimiate familarity with how Geniuses determine whether or not to replace or repair a product in-warranty.

So here’s how it works. When a Genius or ACMT looks over an Apple product to see if it qualifies for warranty repair, what they are really doing is trying to prove it doesn’t qualify for warranty repair. The most obvious way to deny someone warranty service? Dents! And Apple has issued its Geniuses and ACMTs a special tool called the Dent Inspection Tool to help measure dents."
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thats a nice quote you pulled there, where did you get it? As a current ACMT I can tell you that this is false. Why would I want to have an awkward conversation with you about how needing to pay $1200+ because of a little dent in your Mac? I want to ship it out for repair for a little as possible and move on to the next person. Techs don't make commission, they have no reason to screw you over like this. whoever wrote this is extremely cynical
 
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zaaach48 said:
abomination LOL...do you really think greed is the only reason? then why did they allow it to be upgradable on other models, including the non-touchbar 13inch? hard drives are dead, welcome to the new era of computers

also, components such as hard drives and RAM were considered "user serviceable" parts and would not void your warranty. so you were "allowed" to replace those. those days have been over for a while now.

I'm willing to bet that there is hardware in there for the Touchbar taking up the extra space, plus as a bonus it is faster having it soldered to the MLB.
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Being soldered in place makes it faster? Hmm, two questions: 1) Where did you find that made up fact? 2) How often were you annoyed at how slow your standard SSD was?
 
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You know how many times I have upgraded my primary internal hard drive or SSD in the last 20 years? Not once. That is a major pain in the butt even if the drive is removable, swapping the OS and all that. Just order ample storage up front and save yourself a ton of time, and use external drives when you need to. The average person, even Pro user, just doesn't swap out hard drives that often. This doesn't concern me at all.

And if the SSD breaks (rarely happens), a technician will fix or replace it, I don't have that kind of time on my hands to try to do it myself.
 
Anything but surprising ... you want thin and light ... the only way is to anchor everything with Apple Jelly.
 
avanpelt said:
I'll be damned! I'm glad to know I can bump the storage up to 1 TB down the road. And here I've thought for the last two years that the SSD was not replaceable. Thanks for enlightening me!
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It's actually a pretty easy upgrade. I've been running an OWC 1TB SSD in my 2015 MBP for a while now. Very happy with it.
 
gregoryalee said:
Indeed, at purchase time they won't care. When Joe fills his lowest size/cost drive with movies and games and his likewise clueless buddies tell him he can just upgrade the drive... then he will care.

I have worked in IT for over 20 years. In my experience, the most common replacement item is the hard drive due to 1 failure and 2 to increase space, and 3 to improve performance. These options have been effectively removed by Apple.

In addition people have leveraged small disk sizes in the front end by purchasing less storage and then upgrading later. With this latest gem of news, you should now purchase no less than 1 TB to make your machine somewhat future resistant. That raises the cost significantly IMO.
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yea but failure rates on SSDs are WAAAAAAY lower than standard HDDs
 
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