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#Mac mini 2018 replace ram upgrade#
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MacBook Air 13″ Retina 2018 (T2): CPU soldered, SSD soldered, memory soldered, battery replaceable but difficult.Īll models with a T2 chip therefore effectively have internal storage which cannot be replaced by the user, and this is likely to be a design decision on Apple’s part: as contents of the storage cannot be decrypted without that specific T2 and its Secure Enclave, there is little point in adding cost and volume by putting that internal storage into a socket and making it user-replaceable.

#Mac mini 2018 replace ram pro#

MacBook Pro 15″ 2018 (Touch Bar, T2): CPU soldered, SSD soldered, memory soldered, battery by authorised service provider.

#Mac mini 2018 replace ram mac#

Mac mini Late 2018 (T2): CPU soldered, SSD soldered, upgradeable memory (requires disassembly but not too hard).

iMac Pro (T2): CPU socketed and potentially upgradable, SSD Apple-only parts, memory only by authorised service provider.

Here’s a summary from their recent product teardowns: If you want to know how difficult it is to perform internal surgery on any Mac, then the place to go is iFixit.

#Mac mini 2018 replace ram upgrade#

Of the original Mac Pro’s internal upgrade and expansion features, the only remaining need in a Mac with Thunderbolt 3 is for memory expansion. Accommodating expansion cards inside the case of a Mac is no longer necessary. The widespread use of Thunderbolt and USB-C as means of transferring data, audio and video has transformed this, most recently making it practical to add external GPUs. When the tower Mac Pro was first introduced in 2006, high performance graphics cards and several other forms of ‘expansion’ could only be accommodated using internal buses and slots. SSDs do still fail, but at far lower rates than hard disks, and most of those being made today are likely to be good for ten years or even longer. Being mechanical, hard disks have limited working lives, and their failure was one of the commonest reasons for a Mac needing repair. There has been another major change in the last few years which effects repairs: traditional hard disks are being steadily replaced by solid-state drives. But most of its desktop and laptop systems have been intended to be left as they are, and only opened by Apple-trained technicians. In the past, Apple has often kept one product line, such as the ‘cheesegrater’ Mac Pro, for those who needed internal expansion.

#Mac mini 2018 replace ram Pc#

When PC users have looked inside their first Mac, they often complain that they can’t swap its processor or graphics card. Since around 1990, I have repeatedly had to explain to users that Macs are seldom designed for the user to repair or even upgrade. The internals of thin laptops have always been a challenge to access, and subsystems have been increasingly integrated into a single logic board, with chips soldered in rather than socketed. Just as with our cars over that period, there have also been great changes over the last couple of decades. Apple may have been a pioneer of modularisation, design of the Mac II allowing dealers to simply swap any failed subsystem such as the power supply, but it has never encouraged users to tinker and fiddle with hardware. Macs have always been an exception, though. If you came into computers before about 2010, many of them then were capable of user service and upgrade.

To a great extent, our hardware aspirations are based on experience. Is a T2 Mac a data disaster waiting to happen the moment that anything goes wrong? Would you be better off avoiding these new models, and sticking to an older design without a T2? This article looks at how this affects the risks of being a Mac user. Replace the logic board, so your Mac gets a new T2, or replace the internal SSD, and you lose access to everything stored there. Macs equipped with a T2 chip necessarily encrypt the contents of their internal storage, and protect the encryption key in their Secure Enclave.

Addition of the T2 chip to Apple’s new MacBook Air and mini ranges may be great for protecting your security and privacy, but many users find the consequences daunting.