If you’re brave (and/or foolish) enough, you can arguably upgrade the RAM and SSD storage in your M1-based Mac.
Recently, a maintenance engineer in China was able to do exactly this, and while Apple sometimes goes out of its way to make some of its devices notoriously difficult to repair or upgrade on your own, Yang Changshun recently discovered that, while difficult, it’s still possible. They successfully upgraded the SSD and RAM on at least one M1 Mac.
Images show the SSD and RAM modules being soldered through and removed, as well as a screenshot of the upgraded storage in macOS. As with any hardware DIY, there are caveats, but any interested person or company now know that it’s at least possible to perform Mac upgrades.
Please be careful out there and if you’ve successfully upgraded your M1-based Mac, please let us know about your experience in the comments.
Via The Mac Observer and chongdiantou
One reply on “Engineer manages to upgrade RAM, SSD on M1-based Mac”
It’s certainly not something you’d do yourself, and it would cost far more than Apple charges to have a professional lab do it. However, it might be interesting if Apple has impemented addressability beyond 16 GB. I’ll wait.