

2Fyf8AZfJRĮngineers reportedly pulled off the upgrade by using a soldering station to install DRAM memory chips and NAND flash memory chips.

The 8GB memory has been expanded to 16GB, and the 256GB hard drive has been expanded to 1TB. (We double-checked the date of the tweet, it isn’t April 1.)Ĭhinese maintenance engineers can already expand the capacity of the Apple M1. However, Chinese maintenance engineers have reportedly successfully expanded the RAM and SSD capacities on M1 chips. It turns out that it is possible to upgrade the RAM and SSD storage on your Apple M1 Mac mini, but it’s really not a good idea to try it.Īpple’s M1, the first Apple Silicon to power a Mac, offers significant performance improvements over the Intel chips the company formerly used, but it uses integrated memory and storage, meaning it was believed that it was impossible to upgrade the memory or storage on M1-powered Macs.
