Where to find the teardown?
Could you post the source of those teardown images, OP?
Where to find the teardown?
You can buy the drives straight from Apple. Or at least you could for the Mac Studio.Exactly... good luck waiting for a Chinese clone...
Yeah, remember how Apple locked down the FaceTime cameras on previous iPhones? You couldn't just swap them out for one from another iPhone because it wasn't "paired" to the CPU.. the swapped FaceTime camera wouldn't work until it was serviced by an Apple Store. At least I think it was the FaceTime camera.Easy for them to do Xbox has done that.
Yes, please. Here are more pictures:Could you post the source of those teardown images, OP?
Apple is genius with hardware and software guarantee you cannot even swap a display on an Ipgone without apple knowing it...Yeah, remember how Apple locked down the FaceTime cameras on previous iPhones? You couldn't just swap them out for one from another iPhone because it wasn't "paired" to the CPU.. the swapped FaceTime camera wouldn't work until it was serviced by an Apple Store. At least I think it was the FaceTime camera.
A nand is Solid State Storage drive...Yes they are upgradable, some third party will make these. These are not SSDs but NANDs
Yes they are upgradable, some third party will make these. These are not SSDs but NANDs
NAND is a component of an SSD. These Apple modules lack a lot of the "other stuff" that SSDs have.A nand is Solid State Storage drive...
I tip my hat to you. I still have my 2012 i7 Fusion drive Mini that lasted me a solid 10 years and only really started giving me issues last year. I got Apple Silicon after that but that was such a solid computer. I haven’t booted it up in awhile but this new one may make me nostalgic.This is shaping up to be the best base model Mac mini Apple has released since 2012, that's 12 years ago. Amazing.
it remains to be seen if this is true also for the standard M4 Mac mini as these pictures are from an M4 Pro.
No, these photos are from a base 256GB model.
The conventional accepted meaning of an SSD is narrowed to only refer to a complete self-contained stick with controller, but it doesn't mean the original meaning of the umbrella term SSD didn't refer to the broader collection of all solid state media.NAND is a component of an SSD. These Apple modules lack a lot of the "other stuff" that SSDs have.
Call me crazy… but that may be upgradable.
the M4 (non-Pro) does not come with a heatpipe.
It does - watch the teardown video. This is a base M4 teardown. You can also clearly see the 128G markings on the NAND. The Pro model comes with a pair of 256G chips.
you might be right. the thing is: Apple states (fine print on their website) that the thermal module of the M4 Pro is made of copper whereas the one of the standard M4 is made of aluminum. AFAIK, all heatpipes are made of copper. no?
can't find the video...
EXCELLENT. Really interested in seeing how this looks like along with possible paths to 8TBI have my M4 Mac Mini on the way and already have the parts I need to upgrade it to 2TB. Expect an in-depth video of the process tomorrow.