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Upgrading an M4 Pro Mac mini's storage for half the price

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420 points speckx | 1 comments | 11 Jul 25 14:06 UTC | HN request time: 0.206s | source
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Andrew_nenakhov ◴[11 Jul 25 19:03 UTC] No.44535807[source]▶
Non upgradeable storage and ram is ridiculous.

Interestingly, when M4 mac mini went on sale, version with 32GB RAM/1TB drive was priced exactly 2x as 16GB RAM / 512GB drive version. This kinda implies that Apple sells only RAM and storage, and gives away the rest for free.

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1. dlcarrier ◴[12 Jul 25 04:55 UTC] No.44539407[source]▶
It makes no sense for nonvolatile storage, where the power consumption, bandwidth limit, and latency of socketed interconnects are trivial, compared to the speed, latency, and power consumption of the drive itself.

For RAM, it's an entirely different ball game. The closer you can have it to the processor die, the higher the bandwidth, the lower the latency, and the lower the power consumption.