Apple may have been a pioneer of modularisation, design of the Mac II allowing dealers to simply swap any failed subsystem such as the power supply, but it has never encouraged users to tinker and fiddle with hardware. Macs have always been an exception, though. If you came into computers before about 2010, many of them then were capable of user service and upgrade. To a great extent, our hardware aspirations are based on experience. Is a T2 Mac a data disaster waiting to happen the moment that anything goes wrong? Would you be better off avoiding these new models, and sticking to an older design without a T2?
This article looks at how this affects the risks of being a Mac user.
Replace the logic board, so your Mac gets a new T2, or replace the internal SSD, and you lose access to everything stored there. Macs equipped with a T2 chip necessarily encrypt the contents of their internal storage, and protect the encryption key in their Secure Enclave. Addition of the T2 chip to Apple’s new MacBook Air and mini ranges may be great for protecting your security and privacy, but many users find the consequences daunting.
