The M1 Apple Mac mini also soldered storage and RAM, which was no obstacle for modders either.
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Apple has often been criticized for soldering MacBook components to the motherboard, making it virtually impossible to replace or upgrade storage or memory. The same is true for MacBooks with Mac processors and Mac mini. Of course, it’s not just Apple that is true of some of Microsoft’s Surface products.
In any case, Chinese modders did not settle down and use a desoldering station during a time-consuming process. taken out the soldered storage and memory of the M1 Mac mini; then the 8GB RAM was successfully replaced with 16GB and the 256GB NVMe SSD with 1TB.
They haven’t revealed how they managed to get around Apple’s secure enclave solution, but with the guarantee that the trick will be short-lived, Apple is likely to prevent this kind of modding with a software update, for security reasons.
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