[Scott] was trying to fix a laptop, and we all know how that sometimes ends. Having a spare 128GB solid state drive and a Dell Mini 10 netbook to shove it in, there was only one problem, the drive … ...

Detail of traces for the proprietary SSD connector (left), with a retina 13-inch MacBook Pro's stick-style SSD placed atop (right). The connector itself is absent in the base 21.5-inch iMac.

While the theoretical max speed of the PCI-E 3.0 x4 connector with a M.2 slot is 3600 megabytes per second or so, the reality is a bit less, perhaps 2900 megabytes per second.

New Mac Pro Possibly Hamstrung By Proprietary SSD Connector That Enforces The Apple Tax by Paul Lilly — Tuesday, June 11, 2019, 09:49 AM EDT Comments ...

This server has the PERC H700 (internal connectors only) and all SATA drives that came with the server are connected to the PERC. What I want to do is add the SSD drive to the server.

Beyond the SSD, iFixit has found very few changes to the MacBook Air. The new models incorporate Apple's thinner Magsafe 2 standard that the company developed as it has sought to find ways to ...