why are the Mac Minis swappable but not the macbooks?
did you think that will change?
I don think so
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I had the same one in my old house!
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did you think that will change?
I don think so
oh nice basement you have...the exposed floor rafters!
I had the same one in my old house!
thank for everything you do for our MacBooks!
not my 2020 m1 series I would need to replace the logic board to upgrade the storage space.
(I have not opened the hood...took off the back cover yet!)
..unless one solders the chip off then applies a third party one.
the new Mac mini had a Replaceable SSD as I hope uses this in the future for MacBooks!
Hi everyone, just got my hand on a A2681 M2 256gb macbook but as it's for photo editing, i need some extra storage, i have some experience with smd soldering so i want to try to upgrade to 1tb at least but the 200$ for the chips is pretty expensive i thinks, did someone have contact for less expensive chip ?
Actually got a single KIC5224 chip and i thinks i will need to populate the extra capacitor and resistor for the 2nd chip
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Actually got a single KIC5224 chip and i thinks i will need to populate the extra capacitor and resistor for the 2nd chip
First of all, let me say how amazing you all are 
. I'm impressed just by how much you know about all of this.
There's so much information, in fact, that I'm slightly confused on what is needed for my case. I have a 2020 Macbook Pro M1, a2251. It has 4 NAND chips - 2xTSB4228 and 2xTSB4227, for a 512GB configuration. One of the NANDs has seemingly gone bad, making the system unstable/unusable - though I do not know which of the four has failed.
If I want to just get to a good state with the most minimal rather than expanding all four, do I use two KICK223 or KICK229 NANDs on the appropriate two sockets? I forget which two they are, I think U8600 and U8700?
. I'm impressed just by how much you know about all of this.There's so much information, in fact, that I'm slightly confused on what is needed for my case. I have a 2020 Macbook Pro M1, a2251. It has 4 NAND chips - 2xTSB4228 and 2xTSB4227, for a 512GB configuration. One of the NANDs has seemingly gone bad, making the system unstable/unusable - though I do not know which of the four has failed.
If I want to just get to a good state with the most minimal rather than expanding all four, do I use two KICK223 or KICK229 NANDs on the appropriate two sockets? I forget which two they are, I think U8600 and U8700?
That's not an M1 machine, that's a T2-based Intel machine, which uses completely different NANDs and requires external programming to even use a new set of NANDs. These machines tend to be horribly unreliable, and are some of the worst Intel Macs made, so I really have no interest in upgrading or messing with storage in any capacity on these awful machines.First of all, let me say how amazing you all are
There's so much information, in fact, that I'm slightly confused on what is needed for my case. I have a 2020 Macbook Pro M1, a2251. It has 4 NAND chips - 2xTSB4228 and 2xTSB4227, for a 512GB configuration. One of the NANDs has seemingly gone bad, making the system unstable/unusable - though I do not know which of the four has failed.
If I want to just get to a good state with the most minimal rather than expanding all four, do I use two KICK223 or KICK229 NANDs on the appropriate two sockets? I forget which two they are, I think U8600 and U8700?
I second this, if dosdude1 did not create a patch for Mojave onFirst of all, let me say how amazing you all are
my MBA 2010 in 2018ish, I would be using windows today!
for the 256gb m2 air upgrade you need to purchase 2 blank nands(no point buying 2x512GB imo, buy 2x1TB price is very similar for double the capacity) however the difficult part is when you have to add the passive components around the nands landing pad, approximately 40 tiny components according the the schematics.
Hey, thanks for this. Do you have a source? Searched AliExpress for K8A5 and nothing found, maybe this is a new chip?
@dosdude1 Silly question, but how does one know the proper orientation of a NAND onto the motherboard? The NANDs have the golden/yellow dot for direction, but what about the motherboards of Apple? Do we just remember how the "old" chips are placed via their square-code + ID written on them, and just replicate that with new chips for orientation... or is there an Apple specific orientation marker on the mobos?
Thank you
Thank you
Yeah, you just need to keep note of the original orientation. As with any chip, pin 1 will be marked with a dot on the chip. That just has to be in the same position as it was originally.
Just upgraded my M1 Air to 2TB during trip to China for $135. Working well so far.
Was previously thinking of upgrading to the M4 but NAND prices has gone up a lot on the M4. This should last me a few more years.
Was previously thinking of upgrading to the M4 but NAND prices has gone up a lot on the M4. This should last me a few more years.
