So the battery life is alluring me to splurge the money for this. But I’m a bit worried because my wife laptop, bought in 2018, already have a 5% health life on its nvme. I don’t worry as I can simply replace it but those macbooks have it soldered.
So I guess my question is, what’s the expected lifespan of their SSDs? My current laptop will turn 11 this year, and after battery and ssd replacement it still works great. Can I reasonably expect the same lifespan from macbooks?
Are you saying it's used 5% of its total life? That seems pretty good over 3+ years, for an estimated overall lifespan of 60 years. No doubt the machine will be replaced for some other reason by then.
IIRC there was an issue early on with the M1 Macs that involved way higher than normal swap usage, and was potentially bad for SSDs. But I thought that was fixed within months.
Yeah, that sounds like a plausible culprit. And I wouldn't consider it outside the realm of possibility for Apple to replace the SSD for free - even if the laptop is now out of warranty.
Probably, but only in the higher storage models. The lifespan of SSD increases dramatically as you move from 500GB to 1-2 TB. If you REALLY want the longest lasting one then go 2TB. I went 1TB when I bought a macbook pro in 2013 and it lasted for about 7 years before the logic board had some fatal error that neither me nor apple techs were able to fix.
So I guess my question is, what’s the expected lifespan of their SSDs? My current laptop will turn 11 this year, and after battery and ssd replacement it still works great. Can I reasonably expect the same lifespan from macbooks?