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Upgraders rejoice! The 2018 Mac Mini heralds a return to memory slots!

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That's a SATA SSD though, and a 7 year old one at that.

Mac's use PCIe connected SSDs these days, as do most other laptops. A 480GB corsair MP510 has 3480MB/s read, 2000MB/s write, and at £118 quid (according to scan) is less than a third of the price of the 512GB *upgrade* for the Mac mini (which will set you back £360).

I'd be quite happy with a Mac mini that used a standard PCIe flash card. It's not clear why Apple feel the need to solder the flash storage to the motherboard on desktop PC's.

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