I'll just leave this here. New MacBook

[Therealkilometers]

This is a picture of the new MacBook Pro With touch bar's logic board from Apple. Looks like a soldered in SSD to me. The base no touch bar model still has a removal SSD but its some more non standard garbage.

http://imgur.com/a/gdsVh

 

[Sykulski]

Customer: Hi, my computer says "no wifi hardware installed"...??
Apple "Genius": I'm sorry to hear that. It seems like we need to replace the main logic board.
Customer: Oh, what's the price for that ?
Apple "Genius": It depends on the amount of storage you got.

 

[dukefawks]

Just more people that will get pissed off at Apple. RAM failure, new board $700 and all you data gone. Airport failure, $700 all your data gone. It's become a $2500 iPhone.....

Oh and just wait till they start pairing the board/battery/trackpad and LCD together, so you cannot swap them without some Apple proprietary program tool.

 

[Gurmon]

I dont think these macbook pros are going to sell that well. I just specc'd up the maximum available. £4475, come on thats just stupid.

 

[Therealkilometers]

Well looks like some people got there new MacBook Pros and took them apart. Who's ready for Data Recovery on these machines!! http://www.macrumors.com/2016/11/15/macbook-pro-touch-bar-non-removable-ssd/

 

[larossmann]

Do realize that this cuts out 99% of your competitors whose idea of data recovery was buying some $15 dongle off eBay, plugging the drive in, and charging the customer $50-$250 to copy stuff off a dead machine. Yes, it is a downside that it is more annoying to repair, but look at the upside, in that it gives you a competitive edge if you have this skillset.

 

[_Nicco_]

Since the data is distributed equally in the flash chips using a controller, I assume one would not be able to remove each chip, and read the data from that individual chip. Would each flash chip need to be removed, reballed, and soldered onto a working logic board to perform a data recovery operation?

If I'm thinking correctly, it might be easier to make a breakout board with three sockets that accepts each flash chip and have the breakout board soldered to a working logic board. This would be a pretty cool project and worth it if apple continues to go with permanently soldered flash chips.

 

[bighead]

I don't think you will be able to get the data out of the flash chips without a working controller.