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It's not that small: https://www.cnet.com/a/img/resize/65262f62ac0f1aa5540aca7cf9...

I totally missed that they released a new Apple Silicon Mac Pro. Turns out it has PCIe slots.

That stuff makes it more difficult to work on, but it doesn't make it impossible for Apple to sell replacement motherboards... nor does making a "thin desktop" require soldering on SSDs, M.2 SSDs are plenty thin for any small form factor desktop use case.

They do it deliberately. They want you to throw it out and buy a new one

I'm not sure which gen Mac Pro they have, but the current ones aren't that much thinner than the OG cheese grater Macs from 15 years ago.

In fact the current Gen is bigger than the trashcan ones by quite a bit (although IIRC the trash can Macs had user replaceable SSDs and GPUs)

My Dell laptop is much more repairable. I changed the RAM and added second SSD myself.