Mini M1 SSD upgrade?

[EugeneORDan]

Yes, it's nonsense, but that's not what I said - the upgradeable RAM and SSD are not possible due to the SoC design, main benefit of which is excellent performance. It's a deeper design decision, not simply a business one. If your eight-grade reading level allows, take a look at https://debugger.medium.com/why-is-apples-m1-chip-so-fast-3262b158cba2 for further details. But the gist of it is in this paragraph: "Getting this high bandwidth memory (big servings) require full integration which means you take away the opportunity from customers to upgrade their memory. But Apple seeks to minimize this problem by making the communication with the SSD disks so fast, that they essentially work like old fashion memory." Hope it's clearer now.

Yes, the 5nm chip with the RAM directly integrated on is part of what gives this M1 mini such great performance. I personally am waiting for my 16gb RAM mini to show up, and it has the small SSD. I intend on taking advantage of the fast Thunderbolt / USB4 port for external storage of the video and graphics files I will store on it. This chip design has to have Intel and AMD scrambling. I'm in the tech industry and I've been waiting for something like this. I've always liked MACs and the M1 has definitely tilted me to push the buy button. I'm looking forward to kicking the big Windows box off of my desk.

 

[brainkilla]

Yes, the 5nm chip with the RAM directly integrated on is part of what gives this M1 mini such great performance. I personally am waiting for my 16gb RAM mini to show up, and it has the small SSD. I intend on taking advantage of the fast Thunderbolt / USB4 port for external storage of the video and graphics files I will store on it. This chip design has to have Intel and AMD scrambling. I'm in the tech industry and I've been waiting for something like this. I've always liked MACs and the M1 has definitely tilted me to push the buy button. I'm looking forward to kicking the big Windows box off of my desk.

I really am not into being an Apple advocate, as I don't think a trillion-dollar company needs me to defend it from random people on the internet, but am into truth and objectivity as I think it helps both me and my fellow men get proper information. As we're not talking halo products like $700 wheels here, there's not much room for interpretation, opinions or feelings - the thing you are, thankfully, capable of realising . So I bid you welcome to the Mac .

This reminds me of the recent 64-bit transition - which was being announced for several release before it actually happened - and people screaming about Apple forcing 64-bit without reason... now we can clearly see it was an attempt to push developers to update their apps so that these could run on Apple Silicon using Rosetta, since Apple's ARM implementation simply doesn't support 32-bit software. But hey, let's rant instead of thinking and quarrel with strangers on the internet instead of trying to find out what's really going on.

And for expansion I'd recommend taking a look at this accessory https://www.amazon.com/dp/B088B4DCF2

 

[EugeneORDan]

I really am not into being an Apple advocate, as I don't think a trillion-dollar company needs me to defend it from random people on the internet, but am into truth and objectivity as I think it helps both me and my fellow men get proper information. As we're not talking halo products like $700 wheels here, there's not much room for interpretation, opinions or feelings - the thing you are, thankfully, capable of realising . So I bid you welcome to the Mac .

This reminds me of the recent 64-bit transition - which was being announced for several release before it actually happened - and people screaming about Apple forcing 64-bit without reason... now we can clearly see it was an attempt to push developers to update their apps so that these could run on Apple Silicon using Rosetta, since Apple's ARM implementation simply doesn't support 32-bit software. But hey, let's rant instead of thinking and quarrel with strangers on the internet instead of trying to find out what's really going on.

And for expansion I'd recommend taking a look at this accessory https://www.amazon.com/dp/B088B4DCF2

Fully understand,
I did have an old lamp iMac G4 I purchased from a garage sale because I thought it was cool, and I completely rebuilt a busted up 2009 MacBook Pro that I resurrected from the dead years ago. So I'm not a complete stranger to Macs, and not a Fanboy of any trillion-dollar company. I started out as an electronics technician and have repaired the innards of many electronic machines. Apple designs and -has made for them- very nice hardware.
I Like that hub primarily because it also has a hard drive enclosure included. I need an external SSD for projects in work, My SSD is getting cannibalized out of the old Dell box. I also have an old 3TB WD cloud drive that I'm going to attach directly to the 1GB Ethernet port for storage.
Now if they would just ship the Mini to me I can get started on my project. I ordered it through Audorama because I got a $100 coupon but they had to submit the order to Apple to drop ship it.