[colinng]

Don’t forget - they solder in the flash too even though there is no technical reason to do so.

Unless “impossibly far profit margin” is a technical requirement.

[mschuster91]

> Don’t forget - they solder in the flash too even though there is no technical reason to do so.

There is, Apple uses flash memory as swap to get away with low RAM specs, and the latency and speed required for that purpose all but necessitates putting the flash memory directly next to the SoC.

[wmf]

This is not really true; Apple's SSDs are no faster than off-the-shelf premium NVMe SSDs.