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Well, I guess that time will tell who is the dumbass. lol.
I hope that you are right…. We shall see….
I hope that you are right…. We shall see….
Well, I guess that time will tell who is the dumbass. lol.
maybe you are right…. We shall see….
Dude, you really have an axe to grind with Luke Miani (lol)— did he like burn your house down or something? He probably has a hackintosh and followed one of your guides! He doesn’t have the same level technical knowledge of a programmer or an engineer. But he has made 100s of useful DIY videos with macs.All the "serialization" BS originated from the Apple Insider video and everyone else is just repeating it without any fact checking.
Here's what we do know:
- iFixIt successfully swapped SSD modules of identical size. This alone should disprove the serialization BS.
- iFixIt was unsuccessful at booting with two SSD modules installed on a Mac Studio that originally shipped with one SSD module.
- Luke tried and failed at everything, including putting back the SSD module back in to the Mac Studio it shipped in.
- Apple Insider is just repeating something he was told but gave no reference as to who that person is.
- Apple Insider did no testing themselves that I've seen.
We know that people have successfully upgraded storage on iPhones and M1 MacBook Airs simply by replacing the NAND flash chips and doing DFU restores. I really, really doubt Apple would go through the effort of reinventing the wheel on the M1 Pro, M1 Max, and M1 Ultra to block the handful of people crazy enough to attempt upgrades.
Dude, you really have an axe to grind with Luke Miani (lol)— did he like burn your house down or something? He probably has a hackintosh and followed one of your guides! He doesn’t have the same level technical knowledge of a programmer or an engineer. But he has made 100s of useful DIY videos with macs.
I watched his videos too. @pastrychef, you have a little bit of a flare for the dramatic in your assessment of him. It‘s not fair to say that he failed at everything. He got a Mac studio to boot with the same size ssd from another machine, and one of the two Mac studios from this experiment refused to boot after he put the original SSDs back in. He didn’t get his machines free from apple like other YouTuber, so you have to give him a little bit of credit for trying and experimenting on this brand new, super expensive tech— even though some of it ended in failure. If his conclusions are still right after six months, good for him for giving it a go and trying to figure it out. If not, I’ll join the chorus with you calling him a dumbass.
@pastrychef, We are waiting for your videos where you successfully swap out 500gb with 1 tb on the Mac studio.
Well, your writing is beautiful and great, and if you are camera shy, as the meta-verse comes into our world, you can make videos with your cute pastry chef avatar, and I’m sure the world will love them.Lol. I got a bad impression of him the first time I watched one of his videos and it stuck.
Although he didn't get his Mac Studios for free, he bought them to monetize off of them through his videos.
I'm too ugly to go in front of a camera and I have a tendency to use "colorful metaphors" in my everyday speech.
The best you can hope is that it might work with DisplayPort signal carried on "USB Alt mode", as non-Thunderbolt laptop would output through a USB-C port.Studio Display. Does anyone know if this can be run off of a Hackintosh with no thunderbolt ports on the motherboard or GPU (HDMI and Display ports only)?
I don't think there's any serialization. The Luke guy couldn't even get the original SSD module to boot when he re-installed it in to the Mac Studio it originally shipped in.
I don't think swapping SSD modules will require certified Apple techs.
That would be very Steve Jobsian. OCD levels of attention to details.Perhaps he didn't tighten the securing screw the required number of turns!
That would be very Steve Jobsian. OCD levels of attention to details.
To sum up and hopefully close this NVMe upgrade topic, nothing is for sure yet so buy as much storage as you can afford when you CTO the Mac Studio. I could easily use a 1TB boot drive for a very long time. I'd just keep all the large video files that eat up space on external TH4 drives. So why worry about whether upgrades are going to be possible right now ? If they are not, someone will have figured it out by the time we'd need to do that years into the future.
One thing I forgot to mention is RAM. If you get the upgrade to 64GB on an M1 Max model, that means that the page file won't be used much if at all. That means less wear and tear on the NVMe. Also makes resale value greater because the next owner won't be able to upgrade the Unified memory.Presently the higher quality SSDs are usually guaranteed for 5-years. The cheaper ones for 3.