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Released in July 2018, the 15" MacBook Pro, model A1990, features a 15.4 inch LED-Backlight display with True Tone technology, TouchID, and up to 6 Core i9 Processor.

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Is the hard drive soldered or upgradeable?

With all of the cheap M.2 / PCIe SSD options now available, I’m curious if this is upgradeable. I spent the money on the 32GB of ram knowing it would probably be soldered on, curious if the hard drive can be upgraded.

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No, everything is soldered and encrypted with the new T-series chip, forget about upgrading this device EVER.

although you do have the option of Thunderbolt 3 external drives, which should be just as fast.

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As far as I know, Apple never offered a hard drive on this MacBook Pro model.

The SSD is decidedly soldered to the mainboard though.

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Correct the SSD is soldered as you can see here in the iFixit teardown MacBook Pro 15" Touch Bar 2018 Teardown

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