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Building the FIRST Upgraded Apple Silicon DTK
Building the FIRST Upgraded Apple Silicon DTK
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In this video, I perform a very convoluted 1TB storage upgrade on the A12Z-based Apple Silicon Developer Transition Kit! From the factory, these only came with one set of specs; an A12Z SoC with 16GB of RAM, and 512GB of soldered onboard storage. After a lot of work, and with some help from an…
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Now run big sur on ipad a12z (jk)
dosdude1 is a MF'in G. ill never do this but I love watching your videos and you making Macs do stuff apple doesn't want them to do.
Just wait for cease and desist letter from Apple. How dare you modify their hardware?
That is a heck of a lot of work to upgrade a DTK. Aren't DTKs more or less useless?
Brilliant, well done Colin 😁
Thanks Apple for allowing this video and experiment to exist. If you didn't choose to solder the storage on the mainboard, the poor dosdude1 would only have to remove a few screws to replace the storage… and this video wouldn't be as long. Thanks Apple. You rock.
can't install newer macOS on this?
can you add type c port on fire tv stick 4k 2nd gen……. amazon launched it last month and it still have micro usb…
Master!
awesome video Collins. just an idea but would it be possible to get a Socket for the NANDS so u dont need to solder them to the board always? like on the ipad board otherwise the constant soldering to it would kill it with time
is RAM the next? Would be amazing, because storage upgrade for T2 and M1/2/3 chips were already covered by other bloggers.
M chips are also called "bionic"?
In theory, could the ram being removed from the CPU to be upgraded in a similar manner?
It's too bad there's no way of clamping the NANDs onto the iPad instead of having to solder and desolder it for programming.
With all those spare boards you have, I wonder how viable it would be to do a wholesale business, where you buy cheap or damaged boards, fix them up, optionally upgrade them, and resell for a profit. If the final product is cheaper than buying second hand, might be good business. I've been looking at getting a new mac, but can't justify the prices of the new machines, and any m-series chip is fast enough – the trouble is always finding 16GB ram and 512GB+ storage configs second hand that are affordable – at least where I live in Australia.
Sure.. Im not a Programmer , hacker…… But , thats a messy desktop on that Computer…. LOL….
So does it matter if you reball a chip using solder paste or solder balls? I never thought of using solder paste with a stencil instead of solder balls.
If I may inquire where would be a good place to try to buy these boards?
but am I the only one who thought what prevents us from putting those same nands back in ipad. or mb there is a way to restore ipad with that bigsur ipsw
its amazing that you do this stuff, well done…but its just sad that in their greed apple has taken away so much of what we just really take for granted on the PC/win/lin side of things…i know i would love to work on these and i really do like macOS (until i can no longer hackintosh) but i just dont have this level of skill….but thinking back to the idea of woz building the apple 1's with his bare hands – i dunno – apple has lost its way imo…..theyre a marketing company that also sells some tech, not a tech company that also needs marketing and its jsut so sad
Why upgrade any computer not designed to be owned ?
You can see the specs without creating a user account.
At user setup screen first open Terminal with
Cntrl + Option + Cmd + T
Then hold Option while opening Apple menu and "About this Mac" will change to "System Information" which you can open. That's it!
This is also really useful if you are checking out a Mac for sale and don't necessarily want to make an account.
what is a DTK ? sorry for asking 😛
What trick or con are you trying to pull here? In your previous video the last mod you do to the board is put on a 2 pin connector for the power led and it can be clearly seen soldered onto the board when you assemble everything with then powering it on showing the power led working. So how is it then in this video your upgrading the 128gb nand with 1Tb on a board that does not have the 2 pin power led connector soldered onto the board which you supposedly soldered on in the previous video? Something is not right here so I wonder what dodgy explanation you will come up with to explain this.
UPDATE: Looking at both video's I can clearly see they are different boards because the cut out in the PCB is different and towards the bottom of the board in the previous video there is a black strip of something that goes along the board and there is also a black cover as well which you can see if missing on the board in this video. Therefore you clearly have 2 different boards. Why have you not made this clear in this video that the board you are working on is not the board from the previous video? what are you trying to hide from the viewers?
would it be possible to transplant the ram from one of the dead DTKs to an M1/M2 mac?
is a 32/64gb of ram upgrade possible?
I like your calm voice
Interesting how it displays its restoring an iPhone while you restore bigsur onto the iPad A12z bionic chip.
Common W Colin. I have never seen another youtuber soldier M1 Nands on a iPad Pro to have them programmed
It's kinda upsetting that you have to jump through these hoops at all. The DTK board already is an ipad board, why can't it program the chips? It's just another artificial apple limitation.
using an ipad to program a nand for a mac is somehow the most insane and most makes sense thing at the same time.. that's apple for you i guess
@dosdude1 can you upgrade a laptop gpu memory from 4gb to 8gb or more?
@dosdude1 can you upgrade a laptop gpu memory from 4gb to 8gb or more?
nice
Something I'm still confused about is when the board was originally cut, which stopped it from working, why does it work properly after you dug out the short? Where those traces not important? Did they not connect to anything? Or are there aspects of the computer that don't work anymore because of that?
What are the chances of you being able to transfer the NANDs back to the DTK without restoring and have it run iPadOS using Mac hardware??