• Dariusmiles2123
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    26 hours ago

    Yeah but since they aren’t upgradeable anymore, you’re often kind of limited by the 8gb of RAM they often come with.

    It’s also difficult to know how much life an SSD still has in it even if one day I could be tempted by a second hand M Mac and Fedora Asahi…

    • @pressanykeynow
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      12 hours ago

      Your SSD will likely live longer than most of the other hardware. 8gb is surely low but quite enough for running Asahi in daily tasks.

    • @[email protected]OP
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      16 hours ago

      i am not expecting any SSD to be worn out unless the previous owner was into heavy workloads, which isn’t the case for a lot of mac users. You can technically write over the whole SSD hundreds of thousands of time before losing some capacity. Assuming the OS runs on BTRS you’ll be fine as the file system will auto flag bad sectors.

      • Dariusmiles2123
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        14 hours ago

        Interesting to know, thanks.

        I don’t remember if you can replace the battery though. That would also be big bet getting on of these used M Macs if that’s not the case…