News Polysoft offers $849 8TB SSD upgrade module for Mac Studio — reverse-engineered SSD vastly undercuts Apple's $2,220 price

[Admin]

Polysoft's custom SSD PCBs allow users to easily upgrade the storage on their Mac Studio at a fraction of what Apple charges.

Polysoft offers $849 8TB SSD upgrade module for Mac Studio — reverse-engineered SSD vastly undercuts Apple's $2,220 price : Read more

 

[hotaru251]

inb4 next generation will have part ID locks to prevent this happening again <_<...

 

[palladin9479]

And people actually pay money to have to deal with this? Like seriously....

 

[Kondamin]

And people actually pay money to have to deal with this? Like seriously....

It’s not as bad as it used to be, thunderbolt makes it easy to connect to some form of das with little to no performance penalty

 

[CaptRiker]

Apple's behavior hasn't changed in decades, it's why I'd N E V E R consider buying anything made by Apple.. E V E R

 

[Amdlova]

Windows and hardware prices. Size and power compsumation it's making me drive towards apple products. A little machine is better than my current setup! And are cheaper

 

[palladin9479]

While everyone else just lets you plug a commodity NVME in or old school SATA SSD.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-com...ops-to-its-lowest-price-this-year-just-usd199

Apple spend money on this whacky expensive proprietary system as a way to lock you into their eco system and funnel more money from your pocket to their pocket.

 

[Wimpers]

While everyone else just lets you plug a commodity NVME in or old school SATA SSD.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-com...ops-to-its-lowest-price-this-year-just-usd199

Apple spend money on this whacky expensive proprietary system as a way to lock you into their eco system and funnel more money from your pocket to their pocket.

Yeah, in Europe, they also charge up to six times the regular price for memory or storage in their phones and laptops, probably even for the same chips made by the same company.
Yet people complain about six dollar lattes, what a bunch of suckers.