Touch Bar MacBook Pro models have non-upgradeable SSDs, seemingly under-sized batteries

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Touch Bar MacBook Pro models have non-upgradeable SSDs, seemingly under-sized batteries

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<p>The first <a href="https://9to5mac.com/guides/macbook-pro/" target="_blank">MacBook Pro with Touch Bar[/url] models <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2016/11/14/customers-start-receiving-new-macbook-pro-with-touch-bar-most-early-orders-set-to-deliver-this-week/" target="_blank">are arriving[/url], and if you were encouraged by the removable SSD <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2016/10/28/owc-teardown-finds-removable-ssd-in-entry-level-13-macbook-pro-without-touch-bar/" target="_blank">OWC found[/url] in the entry-level machine, there’s bad news. Owners who have opened them up are finding that the SSD chips in the Touch Bar machines are permanently soldered to the logic board.</p>
<p>This means that, like the 12-inch MacBook, the SSD size you order from Apple is the capacity you’re going to be stuck with for the life of the machine, so you may want to take a fresh look at those rather eye-watering upgrade prices.</p>
<p>The SSD chips are beneath some shielding, but one owner was brave enough to remove it to peek beneath …</p>
<p> <a href="https://9to5mac.com/2016/11/15/2016-macbook-pro-non-removable-ssd-small-batteries/#more-454468" class="more-link">more…[/url]</p>
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