10-19-2014, 05:30 PM
As an aside - we were supportive of requests that Apple not do what they did with the KEXT lock outs. At the same time, we also understand why they did it.
A better solution for the Apple community at large would be for Apple to simply support TRIM for 3rd party drives.
But the reality is that Apple doesn't support upgrades of this nature period and thus to them no reason to support. The entire platform is being coming more and more fixed/locked to what as initially configured. I have to wonder at what point a large enough segment of customers just say no to this. Someone purchases a mini with only 4GB or 8GB today.... or an Air, or a Retina... realizes they need more memory 6 or 12 months from now - and the only option is buying a brand new system? That's ridiculous. The iMac hard drives... we did a really cool digital thermal module ( http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/imacdiy/#HDD ) that allows you to put any drive in your iMac without software and that maintains diagnostic compatibility too.... but #1 - shouldn't need this solution in the first place, #2 - shouldn't be this hard to get into an iMac to replace a hard drive. Hard drives fail - fact of life.... after 3-5 years, you're in the zone and likely will need a new drive... or even without failure, may just need more storage capacity. Shouldn't have to go the the Apple store and pay a small fortune to get up to a 3TB that costs 2-3X what a 5TB or 6TB would cost via other channels. You already paid a premium to have the best computer platform on the planet - other than the user/IT department serviceability.
Perfect solution - sell Apple OS X in an unsupported PC hardware compatible license version for $349. People will pay it - that will make the tinkerer's happy - give nice options to a new customer base - while keeping Apple's mass consumers happy with the buy and go models. Not perfect.. but would be nice.
Onwards and upwards.
A better solution for the Apple community at large would be for Apple to simply support TRIM for 3rd party drives.
But the reality is that Apple doesn't support upgrades of this nature period and thus to them no reason to support. The entire platform is being coming more and more fixed/locked to what as initially configured. I have to wonder at what point a large enough segment of customers just say no to this. Someone purchases a mini with only 4GB or 8GB today.... or an Air, or a Retina... realizes they need more memory 6 or 12 months from now - and the only option is buying a brand new system? That's ridiculous. The iMac hard drives... we did a really cool digital thermal module ( http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/imacdiy/#HDD ) that allows you to put any drive in your iMac without software and that maintains diagnostic compatibility too.... but #1 - shouldn't need this solution in the first place, #2 - shouldn't be this hard to get into an iMac to replace a hard drive. Hard drives fail - fact of life.... after 3-5 years, you're in the zone and likely will need a new drive... or even without failure, may just need more storage capacity. Shouldn't have to go the the Apple store and pay a small fortune to get up to a 3TB that costs 2-3X what a 5TB or 6TB would cost via other channels. You already paid a premium to have the best computer platform on the planet - other than the user/IT department serviceability.
Perfect solution - sell Apple OS X in an unsupported PC hardware compatible license version for $349. People will pay it - that will make the tinkerer's happy - give nice options to a new customer base - while keeping Apple's mass consumers happy with the buy and go models. Not perfect.. but would be nice.
Onwards and upwards.