Gently lay the SSD on top of the new hard drive, and slide it until it secures into place. It lets you use Touch ID with an M- series iMac, Mac mini, or Mac Studio. Install the new SSDĪttach the new SATA cable from the hard drive kit (make sure to use the one that faces up when placed into the Mac Mini). A Mac with Touch ID lets you enroll your fingerprints and train the sensor to. You can guide the plastic back into the place you pulled it from, working the connection back into place. Put those through the plastic before inserting the screws. The new SATA cable kit will also have some rubber inserts. Guiding the new hard drive into the plastic insert, you can screw the hard drive into place using the same screws you just used. Using the T5 screwdriver bit, remove the screws from the side of the old hard drive. Install the new hard driveĬonnect the SATA cable into the new hard drive. To remove it, with the power pack being grounded into place on this model, you have to gently wiggle the plastic to get it free. It is connected in the back of the power pack, farthest from where you have the device placed. Are M1 MacBooks immune to such treachery? Only time will tell.There is a piece of plastic that guides around the power pack, the logic board, and the hard drive. However, this is the first time someone has bested an M1 Mac Mini. Although the process is tedious and time-consuming, it is doable. Many intrepid modders have gone down this path before, such as YouTube content creator Strange Parts, who successfully managed to upgrade his iPhone 6s' storage from 16GB to 128GB with relative ease.
This isn't the first time such an endeavour has been attempted, though. Once Apple gets wind of their transgressions, it will almost certainly prevent such modifications via a future software update.
However, the modder's success will likely be short-lived. How they managed to get it past Apple's 'secure enclave' is anybody's guess. The modders successfully managed to upgrade the 8GB module on an M1 Mac Mini to 16GB, and the 256GB NVMe SSD with a 1TB version without any hiccups. Apparently, all one needs is a desoldering station, steady hands, and loads of patience. Then again, several Windows laptops such as Microsoft Surfacebooks also come with soldered RAM, so it isn't just Apple doing it.Ī few Chinese modders discovered a rather simple workaround for the soldered parts conundrum on their M1 Mac Mini. The same holds for Apple's newly-released M1 MacBooks and Mac Mini. MacBooks have been long reviled for their soldered components, which makes upgrading any storage/memory component virtually impossible.
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