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this post was submitted on 05 Mar 2026
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Nice to see this pop up as Apple announce their 5yr plan to flood the world's landfills & scrap yards with 8gb fused ram Neo's.
Hasn't Apple been soldering everything to the motherboard for ages now?
Oh yeah....for well over a decade. If you're REALLY lucky the proprietary form factor m.2 is user replaceable and not just sad bits soldered direct to the PCB. (Edit: I really really hate Autoassume, that's supposed to be "SSD bits"... I'll leave it as is because it's funny)
My wife has a 2017 MacBook Air, at some point in the last few years it stopped getting system and security updates. She didn't notice until she got a pop-up from Chrome saying that her OS is no longer supported. Completely ignored it until around October last year when some websites stopped working and gave an error indicating out of date certificates.
(There's a lot in those last 3 sentences that is wildly troubling to me.....)
Took me from October until mid-January to convince her to TRY Linux. So I went to buy her a new m.2....and paid an extra £20 on top of standard because of the proprietary form factor. Luckily I bought before the major price hikes....got a 256gb m(ac).2 for ~£90. Would have just backed up her files and wiped the original drive but she wanted to be able to switch back to her exact installation if she didn't like Linux...and the new drive is double the capacity 👍