The M1 Macs Will Only Last 2-5 Years... By Dayo Aworunse

So there's a huge problem with the m1 max like the one in front of me right here. Your SSD will only last five years for some of you only two years. At least that's what some news headlines are saying. So, let's try to dissect the facts and find out if Apple is intentionally selling machines that will die quicker than you expected. But in my personal opinion it does feel like news outlets are blowing this way out of proportion. But let's start at the beginning, shall we so, ironically, after I posted my three-month review of my MacBook Air, a viewer commented saying: are you aware of the SSD issue? Google? It many are talking about it.

I really want to buy this laptop so much too, but for now I will just wait to which I did and saw news headlines saying: m1 MacBook SSDs are facing a big problem. It could kill your laptop kill. My laptop seriously bold statement, apple m1, SSD lifespan, threatened by latest alarming issue. Okay, yeah, my anxiety levels are reaching their peak and reading these article titles, apple, m1, might be killing its own. Solid state drive users report.

This could be a massive scandal. Apple doesn't resolve the problem soon. So at this point, I'm convinced that my laptop is probably going to die in 10 minutes and unsure if it will ever boot again. So I did what any person with the brain does ignore the headlines. Read the content of the article conduct my own research and opinion since everyone pretty much copies and pastes the contents within the articles themselves.

It's like twitch chat, copy pasta, so the story seems to originate from the user never released on Twitter stating that apple. This is not okay, especially as the internal SSD isn't replaceable. The machine is just a bit over two months old, where he showed an image of about 15.7, terabytes being written and one percent being used of its expected lifespan. Keyword expected now. This issue stems from the amount of memory swapping happening.

Even models with 16 gigabytes eat up a lot of memory for some reason and don't nearly do it on the same scale as intel machines. Now, if we do some math here on average, if you lose about one percent every two months and let's say you buy today on March 1st 2021 assuming in May you'll hit one percent and assuming it stays consistent to 100, that's about 200 months or 16 and a half years now. I have no idea if Apple will still be a company in 2037 or if Elon will take everyone into rocket to Mars, but he does make a fair point that SSDs aren't replaceable, which is the part I agree with and the part I think most people are upset about now. If you scroll down the Twitter feed which mind you are very long about, 98 of people are at zero percent mine included, but there are some people at three sometimes up to ten percent. So why are media outlets saying that this is harming the m1 max specifically that this computer is basically doomed and dead within two to five years? And I saw that there were some intel users that posted on this Twitter feed as well, and there was a user who was sitting at about five percent at a year, so my math is pretty shoddy, but that's about point.

Eight percent that's being used every two months, instead of one percent, so her mac will last her till 2041. I repeat: her mac will last her until 2041. Now from my judgment, if you recently got your m1 machine, and you're sitting at anything above 3 or higher, that's where the concerns may come up, because there's a much higher chance that this could be your main machine within the next five and a half years and it more than likely will be supported within that time frame the people at one percent screaming that this is insane. I understand your frustration, but I find it insane myself that you would want this to be your primary machine in 2037. That's 16 years, that's birth to puberty! All right! I know I'm joking a lot here, but this is a serious problem, because this doesn't seem to be m1 specific.

This seems to be a big serve problem on a software level, so guess what media outlets this could affect every mac on m1 or intel running Big Sur. You underplay the situation now. There seems to be two main tasks that commonly cause this issue. All you have to do is open up activity, monitor, add the columns by written sort and boom. Hopefully, if my prediction is correct, it should be kernel task and launch d.

If not, I probably look like an idiot post, what macOS version you're on and your details below, if you want to compare your others, because I'm interested as well, if you want to use the smart tools and see your total terabytes written, you can also post that in the description the comments below it really just seems like this was discovered on a m1 machine and people in particular focused on the m1 max when this issue could be plaguing intel machines to running Big Sur. However, we don't know because intel machines have been out in the wild for quite some time, and we don't know if this is a linear degradation degradation degradation, and we don't know if this is a linear degradation on the SSD. But, like I said, no one really knows the full context of what is actually going on here. Now Big Sur was built from the ground up. It wasn't an extension of the previous macOS versions.

Like I stated before in my earlier videos, this was a huge change for apple in the hardware and software department. We've been on 10. x for so many years since 2001 and Apple was brave enough to switch to macOS 11, which is now Big Sur. Now, once again, I'm not saying definitively like this is a Big Sur problem, because that would be a big surprise. My jokes are so bad.

I'm just saying for my observation and my research that that's where my judgment is leaning to now my specific configuration and use case. I have 256 gigabytes of storage, 16, gigabytes of ram, and I've been running final cut, pro safari and Chrome tabs, because I'm weird and use two browsers at once with well over 30 tabs combined, and I'm sitting at zero percent. But I'm just one person, and just because I'm sitting at zero percent doesn't negate the fact that someone's sitting at three or even 10 after a couple of months with the same usage as me, because the root of this problem is still unknown. Now it has been noted that these smart tools aren't the best in terms of accuracy, but assuming they are. Why are people upset and news outlets saying that this is a problem? Let's start with the people, because that's who matters so in the event, a person does reach 100 of the manufacturer's TBW, which stands for terabytes written, which is the total amount of data that can be written into a SSD before it is likely to fail keyword likely, meaning your computer doesn't automatically just die when it reaches 100.

You just have a much higher chance of your drive, failing and performing slower when you originally bought it. Just like humans, when you get older, we start to degrade now. The real problem is apple. Doesn't allow you to swap out the drive which is common in windows laptops. So if your drive does end up failing you're out of luck, instead of the user being able to replace just the component themselves or a third party at a cheaper price, you have to pay for a brand-new machine putting more money in apple's pockets.

It's like people cannot be shocked. That apple is a two trillion dollar company. When you have a business model that sells high-priced items, make the right to repair extremely difficult for non-apple stores. Shell sell insurance on products such as Apple Care and Apple Care. Plus deny problems are going on unless it's on a massive scale, butterfly switches, or you get hit with a class action lawsuit.

Then you decide to fix the problem. Your evaluation will hit 2 trillion dollars pretty fast. Now I get the appeal of having a thin device, but I would much rather have a slightly thicker laptop and have the option to swap out the drive whenever I please, but in the world of macOS and just apple products, you're stuck with whatever they give you. So I think that's the main reason why people are upset. Yes, there is a lot of memory swapping going on and degrading the SSD, but if we were able to swap out the SSD, I think people would be upset, but not on the level of you know, frustration that we're at right now.

So I do agree that SSDs should be stoppable out in mac products. Now moving on to the media outlets, saying that this is a problem, so some media outlets are claiming that apple is intentionally killing their m1 machines in two years now I'm a cynical person and when I read that I was like hmm apple, said that this is a two-year transition and people are claiming that they're trying to kill their laptops in two years. It all makes sense, but after I did my own research, I found that this may be an extreme case that affects a very small group of people, but nonetheless still affects a group of people. It seemed that the media outlets saw some users are reporting this and thought hey. This might be a great headline instead of doing some due diligence and being objective about what's happening now.

Whatever the issue is, if its software apple will probably push out an update and the mass majority of people mass majority, the majority of people probably won't notice. But if it's truly a hardware issue, and it's dealing with the m1 max specifically, then I guess we get extended warranty. But you know it would still be nice if we could replace our SSD, but regardless. This is a problem that apple needs to address. So I have to disagree with media outlets.

Absolutely preposterous. I've always wanted to use that word, but no, it doesn't seem, like apple, is intentionally trying to kill their m1 machines. So nobody truly knows the root cause of this issue, but it does lean towards a software issue. More specifically on the m1 machines in the new architecture, with the memory swapping some users are reporting that the software people are using to view this data could be inaccurate and has been historically known for being up in the air. People are sending their reports to apple and if enough reports reach apple, then apple should announce some type of fix or warranty software patch, whatever it is, but regardless this looks bad on apple's end.

So should you be worried about the m1 purchase you made so if you're sitting at about one percent after a couple of months, and you plan on using this machine until 2037 yeah, you should be worried, but seriously. I don't think you should be worried or consider returning your laptop and here's. Why? Even if I was sitting at one percent after two months, I don't see apple, supporting this machines until 2037. The amount of headache apple would have to deal with to support a computer and software for so long just sounds insane to me on a business level. Yes, it sounds nice for the consumer, but in actuality, 16 years of supporting this laptop is just insane, and personally I can't even fathom a large portion of mac owners using a machine for 16 years as their primary machine 10 at like 10 at most 16, that's a stretch.

So if you plan on upgrading within those 16 years, I wouldn't be worried. I would test yourself and see how much percentage is being used, but if you are a hardcore user or a power user, not to be cynical again, but you really expected being an early adopter for your main machine would be perfect when the CEO himself said that this would be a two-year transition. Let's be real with ourselves. Anyone adopting new technology at the very beginning are beta testers, and you should most definitely not be using this as your primary machine if it's heavily dependent on your main source of income yeah. That's all I'm going to say on that now.

Am I worried nah, but if you haven't made a purchase, yet this may lean you towards getting the 16 gigabyte model because it seems like this is stemming from the m1 max using eight gigabytes, but we still don't know the root cause of this with the memory swapping? But if this is going to be your main machine for professional work and when I mean professional, I mean absolutely destroying this thing for eight hours a day, you probably should stick to something tried and true before jumping on brand-new technology. So let me know what you guys think down in the comments below of what you think apple should do what the potential problem is or what your viewpoint is on this entire situation. I appreciate every sub like and comment and as always guys, much love apple. Thank you.

Source : Dayo Aworunse