News Electronics boffin creates slot-in MacBook SSD module system — breaks storage limits for every modern MacBook

[Admin]

YouTuber fixes a key design flaw of modern Apple MacBook laptops.

Electronics boffin creates slot-in MacBook SSD module system — breaks storage limits for every modern MacBook : Read more

 

[toffty]

The best solution?
Don't buy Apple products!

 

[hotaru251]

and now Next gen ones will have special id's that refuse to boot if there is a non spec id part in it.

 

[georgebaker437]

Proof of time travel! No one has used the term "boffin" since 1945, WW II movies excluded. This writer is obviously a time traveller.

 

[1_rick]

Proof of time travel! No one has used the term "boffin" since 1945, WW II movies excluded. This writer is obviously a time traveller.

No, The Register likes using that term for some odd reason, possibly they're all from the 1940s. Maybe the auther here is trying to get a job there.

 

[Joseph_138]

If it's not practical to use (and requiring a second Macbook every time you reboot is NOT practical) then it's a worthless exercise.

 

[DingusDog]

Proof of time travel! No one has used the term "boffin" since 1945, WW II movies excluded. This writer is obviously a time traveller.

I use that term frequently and also refer to my kids as sprogs and I'm not British.

 

[Nikolay Mihaylov]

IIRC, the NAND controller is embedded in the SoC, so this board provides only the NAND chips. The M2 slot is probably used for convenience, but you cannot plug any M2 device in it. So it's misleading to call it M2, even if it's the same mechanically.

 

[newtechldtech]

Even if Apple Decides to make the SSD slot in , it will not be a standard M2 slot , but a proprietary one.

 

[das_stig]

Isn't a boffin just a nerd with old school scruffy beard and not one of these GenZ-Losers custom chin stubble?

 

[drajitsh]

The best solution?
Don't buy Apple products!

when the 1st macbook pro with the M1 max chipset was released I was awfully tempted to ditch windows for that -- but Louis Rossman cured me of that insanity by telling me just how much the engineering motherboard design sucked.

 

[drajitsh]

and now Next gen ones will have special id's that refuse to boot if there is a non spec id part in it.

That is already the case on desktop MACs

 

[newtechldtech]

This project is a waste of time , the real MOD would be soldering TRUE M2 slot with a tiny bridge chip (Thunderbolt <--> M2) into the thunderbolt internally... This way you can use ANY NVME SSD and will appear as a second drive in the System.

 

[Steve Nord_]

If it's not practical to use (and requiring a second Macbook every time you reboot is NOT practical) then it's a worthless exercise.

It's only when you change internal SSD size. You're in a MacBook reverse harem anyway. (Huh, Tenchi Muyo! genderswap Mac Userdom, Tim was onto something after all...)

 

[circadia]

If it's not practical to use (and requiring a second Macbook every time you reboot is NOT practical) then it's a worthless exercise.

...where did you get the idea that one has to use a second Macbook every time one reboots the MacBook with the upgrade?? it says "requires a second Macbook when rebooting the other Mac after that Mac got the upgrade"! you don't even need a second Mac if you know how to Hackintosh, too.

 

[Pei-chen]

Plenty of Chinese repair shops already do Macs storage upgrade where they replace the NAND or add entirely new NANDs. Of course only China-based shops would have the tool, software, and expertises to pull that off cheaply