Soldered onto the motherboard??

[djrobsd]

Really, new MBP SSD is soldered to the motherboard? So then when the 512 gig and 1TB SSD drives come down to $250-300ish I won't be able to upgrade???

Or are they like RAM modules, they snap off?

 

[heisenberg123]

Really, new MBP SSD is soldered to the motherboard? So then when the 512 gig and 1TB SSD drives come down to $250-300ish I won't be able to upgrade???

Or are they like RAM modules, they snap off?

Correct you won't be able to if they are soldered

 

[ECUpirate44]

Yup, they're soldered.

 

[Martialis]

Tell me if I'm missing something, but isn't the entire chassis a single piece of aluminum anyways? How would you go about opening it up to replace the SSD or RAM in the first place?

 

[Stetrain]

The SSD is not soldered:

Look under the left fan. You can see the SSD is a separate board. There's a connector at the right and a screw at the left side, just like the Macbook Air.

 

[cmChimera]

Can Apple upgrade it? I mean, I'd probably pay them if in two years I wanted to upgrade that.

Edit: Saw the pic. That's amazing. That means that I can just get the base model and upgrade the SSD later if I want.

 

[Macman45]

You spec at purchase time...No more self-upgrading I'm afraid.