MacBook Neo storage can be upgraded to 1TB with the right soldering skills

Apple’s 256GB SSD in the MacBook Neo can be swapped out for 1TB one with skill and with an iPhone component. You probably don’t want to do it.

Close-up of a small electronic circuit board on a blue metal fixture, showing chips, connectors, silver shielding, tiny components, and mounting screws in a detailed, technical view

Detail from the YouTube video showing the MacBook Neo’s NAND storage – image credit: dosdude1

Apple never offers any official way to increase the storage in a Mac after you have bought it. But in the last few years it has become more relaxed about making it possible to do, usually now by slotting a larger-capacity drive into Apple’s connectors.

There is no way to do that with the new MacBook Neo, but YouTuber dosdude1 has upgrade the storage with the kind of NAND chip used in the iPhone 16 Pro. It can’t actually be taken from an iPhone 16 Pro you happen to have lying around, though.

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