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Old 04-16-2021, 03:30 PM   #9
JSWolf
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Originally Posted by drofgnal View Post
Good to know. I googled this and found some apple forums of people discussing this. It does give me pause on getting a new iMac right now. Maybe I'll just gut it out with my 2015 iMac (1 TB HDD) a while and see how the new one goes. It's supposedly to be a different processor than M1, so maybe there is a fix, but I'll wait a while and see how it behaves in the real world.
That's the problem. If you need a MAC now, there's not much in the way of choices. Do you get an Intel based MAC where eventually a lot of programs won't run because they are written in M1 code or do you get an M1 based MAC and know that the SSD will wear out and the MAC then becomes useless because the SSD is not replaceable? Or you could wait for the next systems from Apple. But then you have to wait a while to find out if they actually work properly or not.

This is one major advantage to Windows. With Windows, you have many many choices of computers you can get. So if any have flaws, you just get a different system. With Apple, it's not nearly that easy and it never will be. If Apple screws up like they did with the m1, then your choices are very limited and may not be all that good.

I really do think Apple should recall all of the M1 based systems and fix the hardware/software to stop the SSD wear.

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