New MacBook Pro 13" No Touchbar has Replaceable SSD

BondFancy · Oct 29, 2016

Don't know if this has been mentioned yet, but it appears the SSD is not soldered to the motherboard.

http://www.digitaltrends.com/apple/13-inch-macbook-pro-solid-state-drive-ssd-removable/

JTToft · Oct 29, 2016

It's on the Front Page.

The Touch Bar version probably won't have, though.

lympero · Oct 29, 2016

Didn't read it thoroughly but it says that I need to move the speaker in order to replace it? Doesn't sound very easy to me

schmidti91 · Oct 29, 2016

JTToft said:
The Touch Bar version probably won't have, though.

Why shouldn't it?

BondFancy · Oct 29, 2016

lympero said:
Didn't read it thoroughly but it says that I need to move the speaker in order to replace it? Doesn't sound very easy to me

I think it is useful for someone who can't upgrade the SSD now because of price, it could give them an option down the road to pay Apple to do it.

ssong · Oct 29, 2016

what's the point though. I haven't seen an SSD shaped like that so far..

JTToft · Oct 29, 2016

schmidti91 said:
Why shouldn't it?

- We won't know anything for a while, of course. But on the schematics Apple has shown it appears it's soldered. See this post:

https://forums.macrumors.com/thread...as-removable-ssd.2010410/page-3#post-23816683