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[–] [email protected] -1 points 2 weeks ago (2 children)

And presumably if you switch the SSD yourself, you'll brick the whole thing!

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 children)

Ifixit accomplished it. Required another Mac to reinstall the OS.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

I mean, if you’re swapping it for a drive with no OS on it, wouldn’t that make sense?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Older intel macs could do an internet recovery on a bare drive. The internet recovery system was part of the ROMs/BIOS.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 week ago

Right I forgot about that