It's awful realizing that this is what you need to do to simply upgrade or replace a broken drive, but simultaneously, it's pretty amazing to see. Thanks.
well, that's how modern electronics are made. not super different from how it was done in the 80s 90s, just things got a looooot smaller, so u need a strong magnifier and steadier hands.
I love how many times you've said, "All we need to do..." There is no way I would ever consider any of these steps as an "all you need to do" event. LOL!
As someone who has dabbled in far less sophisticated soldering adventures - this was a complete and utter slap in the face, you made that look so trivial and easy that I want to throw out all my soldering gear and take up gardening. Breathtaking from start to finish - a true master displaying his craft. For most people removing bga chips is already risky and error prone, you just did it x4 and x2 of those times were just to show us that it wasn't going to work! plus 40 tiny SMD components?? Black. Effin. Magic.
@@DarthVader1977 yeah dude that’s a wild amount of fucking around.. use to be a simple upgrade.. that’s not meant to be done. And with M.2 there’s no excuse for it.
It is criminal that you have to do this to upgrade/repair storage on M series macs, but I love that you're showing how to do it! Your Catalina patcher kept 2 of my old macs going for ungodly amounts of time too hahah
Dear Collin, You have just made my day, my week, and my year. It IS UNDERSTANDABLE, I get why people say "it is soldered in - impossible to upgrade the storage" on this machine. And talking to myself, I go "well, exactly, how do they do it at the manufacturing plant where these computers are made?". Thank you so much. Challenging . . . yes, Difficult . . . yes. But possible? Definitely. You have definitely shown that, with the right tools, skills, schematics, etc., that even the latest, most modern computers . . . can move beyond 128GB. Lovely, lovely, video. Thank you so much. John M. 😄👍
what exactly does ur comment mean? apple created the boards and layouts etc. how is he more innovative than apple by just populating them to install the 2nd nand???
The skill you possess to make this happen is incredible. The fact that this level of skill is necessary to replace the single component most likely to fail should, I think, be criminal globally.
Great work! If only Apple or their authorized resellers were that adept. My local authorized reseller wasn't even able to diagnose why my MacBook Air didn't turn on and just claimed it was a water damage.
Hands down the most interesting and detailed SMD video on Apple products. There are 2 areas where you got extremely lucky with this project. First, the single Nand board came with all internal traces and Via's intact to power and operate both installed chips. Second, Bios on the board was not locked down to prevent hardware "upgrades" even in this extreme use case. Kudos to you and your craftsmanship
Hey dosdude! I can confirm that the 128 gig configuration of the M1 Air is real, as my school gives them to the students (I'm typing this comment on it now). I can also confirm that 128 gigs of storage (115 usable, not including preboot, vm, macos, "system data", and school bloatware) is way worse than it even sounds. Ever since my first year of owning this computer, I have been CONSTANTLY running out of storage. It really has infuriated me to no end, especially with MacOS' beyond terrible storage management. It has been a massive headache, and the worst part is that the school made this decision, despite my parents completely paying for the computer (and they would be more than willing to pay a bit more for me to have gotten an actually usable storage configuration, but because they're soldered, there's nothing we can do). Thanks for sticking it to Apple one soldered SSD at a time! Edit: I also forgot to mention that using BlackMagic Disk Speed Test, the speed of the SSD is halved, so it has only about 1500 megabyte per second for read and write, instead of the normal M1 3000
Well, if it's paid for and not the school's property any longer, you can upgrade it. May be worth it. Paying someone like me to do the 2TB upgrade costs less than buying the 1TB config straight from Apple when ordering the machine new.
@@dosdude1 have you done upgrades on Mac Studio? Currently running a late 2013 iMac, but know it's only a matter of time before it'll need replacement, and most likely will upgrade to a base M2 Max. Just hate to spend the ridiculous money on upgrading from the base 512 MB to 1TB.
I wanted to give this a try for a while now, and I decided to try it today. Everything went very smooth, and it worked out of the gate. Thank you for the guide. I feel slightly less a beginner in microsoldering now :)
gotta applaud the effort it took to make this video, from not only showing the entire soldering process to desoldering the chips and programming them, must have taken a lot of time and hard work. You're amazing at what you do
absolutely unreal --- you've inspired me to go deeper as a technician. thank you for sharing all of this in such a clear manner. it's hugely appreciated
Really great breakdown of the process! Glad there are people brave enough to do this. I watched iBoffRCC's video about replacing NAND chips on all the M1 variations (Max, Pro, plain) and it seems like a huge mess. I'm so disappointed in the state of modern Apple hardware upgradability... but love the end-results and software. Anyways, please keep pushing the limits & sharing the knowledge! Hopefully I can afford to hire you for this when my machine is out of warranty :)
How I miss my original unibody Macbook Pro... Not only it was ridiculous easy to open up and upgrade/replace ram and storage but you could even get rid of the optical drive and put another storage drive in its place. How did we go from that to this mess?
Yes, even a fool like myself has done a memory and SDD update on my 2012 Macbook Pro in 10 minutes max. This machines were close to the absolute King of Mac upgradability the Mac Pro 5,1
Hey, dosdude1 , I wonder if its possible to upgrade the RAM of those devices as well? Or its going to be really tricky since the ram is already on an interposer.
Howdy, the ram is integrated on the SOC using a system in package technique. So not on die but pretty close. I haven’t seen someone swap the SOC yet but I think it’s possible.
this is by far the best video explanation of this complex process i’ve seen in two years of watching similar videos … the tech gods have smiled on you … if i had a need for an upgrade, i would not hesitate to send it to you for some of that tech voodoo you do so well … just take my money already …🤯
@@thegeforce6625 But they are upgrading the SSD. The "ram" is part of the Mx processor so wouldn't you/they have to upgrade/purchase an upgraded Mx processor [which Apple is not going to sell you]?
Great to watch, your skillset & knowledge levels are massive bud. There's no way I or most normal folks could do this, kudos again, absolutely awesome.
Just wanted to share that I sent my Macbook Air M1 to DosDude's team and they performed the upgrade to 2TB in no-time and it is amazing. Saved $500 from the Apple cost for that model.
Wow. I’m not a technician but casually interested in this kind of stuff and it amazes me how easy and effortlessly you’ve done this! True master. P.S. Why the hell the process of upgrading your storage in 2024 should be so complicated… But that’s another question to Apple.
Great evidence of Apples planned obsolescence… An amazing video, thanks for sharing although not sure I’d ever do something like this as I do have have the patience for soldering. Also noted the irony where a Windows software is required to update the NAND!
Yeah Apple and all other companies CAN for the price you're paying, incorporate at least an LGA socket. For that, I'm actually in the process of getting some quotes from a company in china to produce some NAND BGA to LGA sockets that could be soldered to a MacBook air Logic Board.
Wow if i ever need to work on an apple laptop ill make sure to come to this channel. Ill have to order myself an underfill removal tool to add to the bag also. great video man.
Saw your mac mini m1 upgrade to 2 TByte with Luke M. This laptop is a whole other beast with need to add so many other components on the flipside. 7:26
This is seriously amazing👍Your persistence is exemplary and int the u r rewarded with making it work, awesome! This is another reason why soldered and non modular systems r pain in the ass for users and have huge impact on the environment through e-waste. Soldered on package RAM like with all Mx processors makes sense, however u could argue there could be a special upgrade high performance slot as well (not inefficient SODIMM). However when it comes to the SSD storage it's inexcusable that M.2 upgrade slot isn't available besides soldered NAND modules. Especially when speeds of their soldered SSD is sometimes even lower than the current gen M.2 PCIE speed. Even consoles which r used for one thing only like PS and partially Xbox as well have modular and upgradeable storage. Apple should finally stand behind their claim of making their Mac machines green and environmentally sustainable by making them first and foremost as much as MODULAR as possible!
You can use free OBS to do screen/window recordings for a clearer picture - you'll need a mic or you can phone record at the same time and strip the audio off that. With GPU VRAM pads can look fine but are broken, maybe see if any pads fall off that faulty memory. Good job with the swap.
Another great video. Appreciate the attention to detail. Well, I will probably never be going to perform such upgrade, but I enjoyed watching it nonetheless.
I really love my M1Air so to know that Apple soldered ssd's that have a finite life to a machine that could easily have a decade life span otherwise angers me. The obvious question is how many people are there in the world who would be able to do this at a price that remotely makes sense and are in Australia :) Thanks for the video, I hope this becomes an option for millions of macbooks in the future.
This tutorial is very helpful - also for average customers in terms of clarifying the fact that they are way better off paying Apple handsomely for SSD upgrades instead of trying this.
I was literally getting ready to move back to a PC for my business when I found your channel. Thank God for people like you. 🔥🤙 Apple has turned into an a-hole when it comes to this crap.
I'm so tempted to jump ship with how Apple is locking down their hardware. It's crazy that they solder in the Nands and memory. Can you say, built in obsolescence! Thanks for doing this someone hopefully will start a business with reasonable prices to do this! All these ARM system SSD 's will go belly up at some point making all these machines door stops!
@@LaNoturna1115: You can be sure Apple will definitely make building a Hackintosh way more difficult in the future even to the point where it won't be possible.
Not only soldered but glued down too! Its one thing to do some BGA rework, but BGA desoldering with the underfill makes it way more risky. I'd love to hear an engineers real reasoning behind it, because to me it just seems like an extra f-u to being able to fix these boards. I'm sure its for "durability" but is a BGA chip really going to rip off in a drop? Maybe if you launch it out of a trebuchet into a concrete wall.
Reminds me of back in the days... configuring interrupts on a 28.8k modem to my PC to get stuff to not conflict and work or flipping some DIP swithches.. would've it have killed Apple to just put a NVME slot on their Mboard?
KICM223 is spendy, $40-60 and don't appear to be great sources for it, only seeing aliexpress. Repopulating the required IC components for the second NAND seems like the worst part of this. Thanks for sharing this possibility so thoroughly!
There is an AliExpress listing that has brand new/blank ones for sale, which is where I get them. Around $100 for 2 of them, to upgrade one system to 2TB. Luckily most machines will have both NANDs already installed, so you likely won't need to bother re-installing those extra passive components.
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You are quite literally The Greatest Technician That's Ever Lived. Every new video blows my mind. Keep up this awesome work.
My man is literally handing down the crown 🤣
Wait. Isn't that Rossmann? J/k. Nice to see you here.
Didn't expect ya to be here 😅
But there weren't any pubes in that M1. 😂😂😂😂
nah you will always be *The Greatest Technician That's Ever Lived* 😂
It's awful realizing that this is what you need to do to simply upgrade or replace a broken drive, but simultaneously, it's pretty amazing to see. Thanks.
Yeah that is a lot of work.
Probably way to risky for upgrading but if its broken its worth it I guess
well, that's how modern electronics are made.
not super different from how it was done in the 80s 90s, just things got a looooot smaller, so u need a strong magnifier and steadier hands.
@@rob9949 too*
wait till apple starts pairing these, shutting down even a labor-intensive upgrade
I love how many times you've said, "All we need to do..." There is no way I would ever consider any of these steps as an "all you need to do" event. LOL!
As someone who has dabbled in far less sophisticated soldering adventures - this was a complete and utter slap in the face, you made that look so trivial and easy that I want to throw out all my soldering gear and take up gardening. Breathtaking from start to finish - a true master displaying his craft.
For most people removing bga chips is already risky and error prone, you just did it x4 and x2 of those times were just to show us that it wasn't going to work! plus 40 tiny SMD components?? Black. Effin. Magic.
Apple: We want to be more sustainable as a company
Also Apple: Lets make machines with 128gb of disk.
lets sell laptops that have parts that fail and can't be replaced soldered to the board to sell more products more often!
Estimated Trade In Value: Worthless
“We’ll recycle it for you to help the environment, just give it to us for free and buy yourself a $3,000 new Mac”
"128gb of disk"?
Who talks like this?
@@cartorius It CAN be replaced, did you watch the video?
@@DarthVader1977 yeah dude that’s a wild amount of fucking around.. use to be a simple upgrade.. that’s not meant to be done. And with M.2 there’s no excuse for it.
It is criminal that you have to do this to upgrade/repair storage on M series macs, but I love that you're showing how to do it! Your Catalina patcher kept 2 of my old macs going for ungodly amounts of time too hahah
I love the mad scientist energy of nonchalantly using a Frankenstein G4 iMac/M1 Mac Mini because it's the closest Mac at hand.
Dear Collin, You have just made my day, my week, and my year. It IS UNDERSTANDABLE, I get why people say "it is soldered in - impossible to upgrade the storage" on this machine. And talking to myself, I go "well, exactly, how do they do it at the manufacturing plant where these computers are made?". Thank you so much. Challenging . . . yes, Difficult . . . yes. But possible? Definitely. You have definitely shown that, with the right tools, skills, schematics, etc., that even the latest, most modern computers . . . can move beyond 128GB. Lovely, lovely, video. Thank you so much. John M. 😄👍
I absolutely loathe resistor work on machines with not populated pads. Hats off to a pretty neat resistor work! Looking forward to 315 upgrades!
You really are more innovative than Apple claims to be.
Much respect to you.
Didn't know apple claimed dosdude1 was innovative at all! TIL /s
what exactly does ur comment mean? apple created the boards and layouts etc. how is he more innovative than apple by just populating them to install the 2nd nand???
@@bennaambo2716 He just is that much of a gigachad
@@bennaambo2716 because he out maneuvered apple beta simp move
The skill you possess to make this happen is incredible.
The fact that this level of skill is necessary to replace the single component most likely to fail should, I think, be criminal globally.
I can't believe I watched this whole video, but for some reason I couldn't stop.
Exactly the same here 😆
Same. In the beginning, I thought maybe I'd learn something.
Great work!
If only Apple or their authorized resellers were that adept. My local authorized reseller wasn't even able to diagnose why my MacBook Air didn't turn on and just claimed it was a water damage.
Authorized repair shops are not allowed to do this kind of work because it's hurting Apple's business model
Hands down the most interesting and detailed SMD video on Apple products. There are 2 areas where you got extremely lucky with this project. First, the single Nand board came with all internal traces and Via's intact to power and operate both installed chips. Second, Bios on the board was not locked down to prevent hardware "upgrades" even in this extreme use case. Kudos to you and your craftsmanship
Hey dosdude! I can confirm that the 128 gig configuration of the M1 Air is real, as my school gives them to the students (I'm typing this comment on it now). I can also confirm that 128 gigs of storage (115 usable, not including preboot, vm, macos, "system data", and school bloatware) is way worse than it even sounds. Ever since my first year of owning this computer, I have been CONSTANTLY running out of storage. It really has infuriated me to no end, especially with MacOS' beyond terrible storage management. It has been a massive headache, and the worst part is that the school made this decision, despite my parents completely paying for the computer (and they would be more than willing to pay a bit more for me to have gotten an actually usable storage configuration, but because they're soldered, there's nothing we can do). Thanks for sticking it to Apple one soldered SSD at a time!
Edit: I also forgot to mention that using BlackMagic Disk Speed Test, the speed of the SSD is halved, so it has only about 1500 megabyte per second for read and write, instead of the normal M1 3000
Well, if it's paid for and not the school's property any longer, you can upgrade it. May be worth it. Paying someone like me to do the 2TB upgrade costs less than buying the 1TB config straight from Apple when ordering the machine new.
@@dosdude1 have you done upgrades on Mac Studio? Currently running a late 2013 iMac, but know it's only a matter of time before it'll need replacement, and most likely will upgrade to a base M2 Max. Just hate to spend the ridiculous money on upgrading from the base 512 MB to 1TB.
@@dosdude1 what is the price range on an upgrade like this? just for curiosity sake
@@lopesmorrenofim yes! how much would it cost to bump it up to 1TB?
@@robbyhoff8850 Mac Studio SSD isn't soldered
I wanted to give this a try for a while now, and I decided to try it today. Everything went very smooth, and it worked out of the gate. Thank you for the guide. I feel slightly less a beginner in microsoldering now :)
I'd like to learn to solder as well but i have no idea how much it will cost me between toold and where and what should i get to exercise on
@@sasuke65743tools would be a couple hundred but for exercise you can get locked iPhone motherboards which are so cheap they’re sold by the 10
gotta applaud the effort it took to make this video, from not only showing the entire soldering process to desoldering the chips and programming them, must have taken a lot of time and hard work. You're amazing at what you do
I don't know why but everytime I hear "Alright" or "As you can see here" give me so much vibe. Really satisfying.
Here I am dreading a recap of my SE/30, and you are doing this level of work. You are a god among mere mortals.
absolutely unreal --- you've inspired me to go deeper as a technician. thank you for sharing all of this in such a clear manner. it's hugely appreciated
it's nice to see Apple going in the direction it's going with regard to making their products highly serviceable by the average consumer!
Lol!
What an interesting video! I think in the future I might actually attempt this on a broken board to practice! Thanks for sharing!
This is amazing. I never thought I’d see the day when it was possible
This was epic. The best of TH-cam. What a wonder. I could only imagine this sort of resource back in the 70s when I got started in electronics.
Always very interesting videos with amazing skills. Thanks!
Really great breakdown of the process! Glad there are people brave enough to do this. I watched iBoffRCC's video about replacing NAND chips on all the M1 variations (Max, Pro, plain) and it seems like a huge mess. I'm so disappointed in the state of modern Apple hardware upgradability... but love the end-results and software. Anyways, please keep pushing the limits & sharing the knowledge! Hopefully I can afford to hire you for this when my machine is out of warranty :)
I love this kind of rebellious content. Like no Apple, you don’t rule the world 💅🏻💅🏻💅🏻
Totally awesome! Not sure how you learned all of this… you are very talented
Hope to see this done on M2 Pro/M2 Max in the near future
I still need to experiment with those, of course I'll make another video when I do.
@@dosdude1Awesome!
How I miss my original unibody Macbook Pro... Not only it was ridiculous easy to open up and upgrade/replace ram and storage but you could even get rid of the optical drive and put another storage drive in its place. How did we go from that to this mess?
Apparently that’s „progress“ and being „bold“ 🙄
Tim Cook
and it wasn't a glorified mobile phone/Raspberry Pi 🤣😂😅😆
Yes, even a fool like myself has done a memory and SDD update on my 2012 Macbook Pro in 10 minutes max.
This machines were close to the absolute King of Mac upgradability the Mac Pro 5,1
I'm watching this on my desktop PC, I think it's secretly judging and laughing at the video in the background lol
This is awesome! Guy has serious soldering skills!
Love to see youre still around and showing off your experiments! Huge fan as always.
Hey, dosdude1 , I wonder if its possible to upgrade the RAM of those devices as well? Or its going to be really tricky since the ram is already on an interposer.
Howdy, the ram is integrated on the SOC using a system in package technique. So not on die but pretty close. I haven’t seen someone swap the SOC yet but I think it’s possible.
@@matthewcarlson5885 bro i said the same thing in my comment that its on an interposer next to the soc
This guy has some serious skills. There's no way I could do that kind of soldering.
What you do on these videos is simply mind-blowing!
in Hungary we call this kind of work cricket castration :)
Wow!! Simply amazing. No magnification ... got to have perfect eyesight!
I've been waiting for this since the Luke Miani video were you guys upgraded the Mac Mini.....thank you!!!!!
Thanks for your hard work and sharing with us all!
Felicitaciones por el video y el trabajo que hiciste. Un saludo desde Perú
Shows Apple's contempt for education. Thanks for being an amazing innovator - one that is actually beneficial to all of us.
15:15 i don't understand why you not using low melt solder??? 21:50 why you're not using hot twizer to remove and solder the small component???
this is by far the best video explanation of this complex process i’ve seen in two years of watching similar videos … the tech gods have smiled on you … if i had a need for an upgrade, i would not hesitate to send it to you for some of that tech voodoo you do so well … just take my money already …🤯
This is the first video I’ve seen about you and your work, but I have to say its so awesome, very thanks I learned a lot
Congratulations for the amazing content and god-level technical skills. Quick question: Is it possible also to upgrade the RAM?
I would think no since the memory is built into the M1 processor.
@@StewartWhaleyit is upgradable actually, it’s on the same physical package as the Mx SOC
@@thegeforce6625 But they are upgrading the SSD. The "ram" is part of the Mx processor so wouldn't you/they have to upgrade/purchase an upgraded Mx processor [which Apple is not going to sell you]?
That's a great achievement. Lacking your skills, I opted for a different solution to my upgrading needs. (I got a Framework.)
I love that concept of a Framework laptop: the antithesis of a modern MBP!
What config did you get, and how is it running?
Wow! Much respect to you for this upgrade! This is next level stuff!
Excellent video and tutorial Collin, I am amazed as to your knowledge and skill!
how much do you charge for this upgrade?
He said in another comment that he charges around $200-300
Great to watch, your skillset & knowledge levels are massive bud. There's no way I or most normal folks could do this, kudos again, absolutely awesome.
Just the classic imac itself warrants a thumbs up!
Just wanted to share that I sent my Macbook Air M1 to DosDude's team and they performed the upgrade to 2TB in no-time and it is amazing. Saved $500 from the Apple cost for that model.
How much did the upgrade cost?
$200 + cost of the NANDs ($100)
@@evanmair thanks for replying 🙏🏼
@@evanmair well worth it, good to know!
Been fixing stuff for decades and this looks very challenging. Looks like they REALLY wanted to force buying a new machine😳 Well done ❤
Wow. I’m not a technician but casually interested in this kind of stuff and it amazes me how easy and effortlessly you’ve done this! True master.
P.S. Why the hell the process of upgrading your storage in 2024 should be so complicated… But that’s another question to Apple.
$$$$ profit , greed
The same reason you won't find a micro SD card slot on any iPad. Ever.
Great evidence of Apples planned obsolescence…
An amazing video, thanks for sharing although not sure I’d ever do something like this as I do have have the patience for soldering. Also noted the irony where a Windows software is required to update the NAND!
amazing work :)
You are a mad scientist in the best way. Watching your videos inspire me to do more
Is it possible for you to upgrade a macbook pro m3 max 48 gig memory?
Wow, didn't know you had a youtube channel. You are a legend! Thanks for all the MacOS patches!
You are a new generation hero 🦸🏼♂️ dude ❤️
this is amazing!! If i was in the states, i’d be at your door step tomorrow with my macbook air. is there anyone in the uk that does this?
oh those 0201 are a nightmare for me. Great job as always
Awesome, it would be interesting to see upgrading m series Ram
i hate u sm ur voice is so soothing that i literally cant stop binge watching your videos 😭
Amazing work.
It's infuriating that this process is so complex.
i always think soldered SSDs and RAMs in Laptops are pure evil...
Yeah Apple and all other companies CAN for the price you're paying, incorporate at least an LGA socket. For that, I'm actually in the process of getting some quotes from a company in china to produce some NAND BGA to LGA sockets that could be soldered to a MacBook air Logic Board.
Thanks for sharing. Your content is amazing. We need more content like this on TH-cam.
Wow if i ever need to work on an apple laptop ill make sure to come to this channel. Ill have to order myself an underfill removal tool to add to the bag also. great video man.
Saw your mac mini m1 upgrade to 2 TByte with Luke M. This laptop is a whole other beast with need to add so many other components on the flipside. 7:26
This is seriously amazing👍Your persistence is exemplary and int the u r rewarded with making it work, awesome! This is another reason why soldered and non modular systems r pain in the ass for users and have huge impact on the environment through e-waste. Soldered on package RAM like with all Mx processors makes sense, however u could argue there could be a special upgrade high performance slot as well (not inefficient SODIMM). However when it comes to the SSD storage it's inexcusable that M.2 upgrade slot isn't available besides soldered NAND modules. Especially when speeds of their soldered SSD is sometimes even lower than the current gen M.2 PCIE speed. Even consoles which r used for one thing only like PS and partially Xbox as well have modular and upgradeable storage. Apple should finally stand behind their claim of making their Mac machines green and environmentally sustainable by making them first and foremost as much as MODULAR as possible!
That was amazing dude, absolutely out of this world. Thanks for this video!
You can use free OBS to do screen/window recordings for a clearer picture - you'll need a mic or you can phone record at the same time and strip the audio off that.
With GPU VRAM pads can look fine but are broken, maybe see if any pads fall off that faulty memory.
Good job with the swap.
dosdude1 your amazing!! love your videos
Great research and the right tools to get the job done! Patience and persistence!
dosdude1 is actually goated asf
THIS is how to bypass the Apple storage scam. You are the GOAT.
I thought Rewa was only on the next level but this guy is leveled up
Fascinating! Thank you for sharing this detailed explanation of this process.
Another great video. Appreciate the attention to detail. Well, I will probably never be going to perform such upgrade, but I enjoyed watching it nonetheless.
I really love my M1Air so to know that Apple soldered ssd's that have a finite life to a machine that could easily have a decade life span otherwise angers me. The obvious question is how many people are there in the world who would be able to do this at a price that remotely makes sense and are in Australia :) Thanks for the video, I hope this becomes an option for millions of macbooks in the future.
That's awesome. Looking forwards for more videos.
Absolutely amazing. Too bad it's so much work to do it but it's great to see you doing it and showing it do the world!
I love the detail and deep dive. Couldn’t follow why you can’t do this for the M1 Pro max or m2 pro or max.
You can, but it is more involved, as those models have up to 8 NANDs installed instead of only two. Will be covered in another video.
This tutorial is very helpful - also for average customers in terms of clarifying the fact that they are way better off paying Apple handsomely for SSD upgrades instead of trying this.
I love how they can sell you the bare minimum for maxium ammount of dollars, well done
@dosdude1 very good tutorial. where did you found to download schematics? Where can I buy nands and programmer?
Aerobatics!!!Your skills are above the stars!!!!It's so great that you're sharing them!!!Thank you very much✨🎗
This entire video is a giant middle finger back to Apple that they absolutely deserve, I applaud it very much.
I was literally getting ready to move back to a PC for my business when I found your channel. Thank God for people like you. 🔥🤙 Apple has turned into an a-hole when it comes to this crap.
this gives me hope
Unbelievable Work ! Great ! Greetings from Germany
I'm so tempted to jump ship with how Apple is locking down their hardware. It's crazy that they solder in the Nands and memory. Can you say, built in obsolescence! Thanks for doing this someone hopefully will start a business with reasonable prices to do this! All these ARM system SSD 's will go belly up at some point making all these machines door stops!
Hackintosh
@@LaNoturna1115How can you even do that? Those Windows on ARM laptops are a rare sight to behold.
@@LaNoturna1115: You can be sure Apple will definitely make building a Hackintosh way more difficult in the future even to the point where it won't be possible.
Not only soldered but glued down too! Its one thing to do some BGA rework, but BGA desoldering with the underfill makes it way more risky. I'd love to hear an engineers real reasoning behind it, because to me it just seems like an extra f-u to being able to fix these boards. I'm sure its for "durability" but is a BGA chip really going to rip off in a drop? Maybe if you launch it out of a trebuchet into a concrete wall.
@@RyCorp77: It's just another FU from Apple to the right to repair movement!
Extraordinary work!
These videos give me hope
Reminds me of back in the days... configuring interrupts on a 28.8k modem to my PC to get stuff to not conflict and work or flipping some DIP swithches.. would've it have killed Apple to just put a NVME slot on their Mboard?
#righttorepair ❤
After watching half of this, I would happily pay you whatever your rate is to do this work for me :)
As always your technical skills are amazing! But without a way to upgrade those 8GB of ram the machine is one step away from recycling in 6-12 months.
Thank you for your service!
You're doing the lord's work, Dos Dude. Rock on with your bad self.
KICM223 is spendy, $40-60 and don't appear to be great sources for it, only seeing aliexpress. Repopulating the required IC components for the second NAND seems like the worst part of this.
Thanks for sharing this possibility so thoroughly!
There is an AliExpress listing that has brand new/blank ones for sale, which is where I get them. Around $100 for 2 of them, to upgrade one system to 2TB. Luckily most machines will have both NANDs already installed, so you likely won't need to bother re-installing those extra passive components.
Its perfect the way you are explaining stuff is amazing 😁😁👌👌