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internet2000today at 12:12 AM2 repliesview on HN

> Apple's refusal to adopt basic M.2 spec

I get the ideological angle, but in practical terms that's not a barrier: https://www.aliexpress.us/w/wholesale-apple-ssd-adapter.html...


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wtallistoday at 1:01 AM

Those are all for Intel Macs, and not even the recent Intel Macs. You can't use a passive adapter to put a NVMe SSD into a current Mac like you could a decade ago, because back then the only thing non-standard about the SSD was the connector. Now most of the SSD controller itself has moved to the SoC and trying to put an off the shelf SSD into the current slot makes no more sense than trying to put an SSD into a DIMM slot.

bigyabaitoday at 12:21 AM

This is the USB-C dongle argument all over again, but with a proprietary connector that a total of one (1) company uses.

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