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This, I've tried to look up spare ssd and ram chips for apple arm laptops to reball and resolder them and couldn't find any
Inb4 apple locked down components to motherboard serial number
But seriously, I guess the only hope is to wait for the Chinese second hand market takes off.
I know that iPhones do that but about MacBook i didn't know until your message
It was a joke. But you can see why I wouldn't be surprised if it turns out true in the end.
I know for a fact they're making it impossible to make small repairs like changing the screen closed sensor. It requires a proprietary calibration tool they won't sell, and so MacBooks can't go to sleep when closing the screen.
On top of changing it from a sub $ hall sensor to some proprietary bs that's far more expensive.
Yeah you're right, we'll all wait till Chinese spare parts market will kick in again, they usually do this after few years from launch