I do wonder if this is cheap and low risk enough to get a repair shop with these kinds of skills to do it for you, rather than paying for the upgraded storage.<p>If it were at all common though, I'd expect apple to change something so you couldn't re-pair the M1-3 CPU to replacement chips without some internal tool.<p>>Firstly, the SSD is usually placed on the outer borders of the MacBook, making it the most accessible to liquid ingress. Secondly, the power delivery system involves a buck converter circuit controller by a BGA IC. This means that high voltages are placed within millimetres of the sensitive lower-voltage lines that power the SSD’s chips. Liquid can easily cause a short circuit that sends higher voltage to the SSD, destroying the chip and preventing any possibility of data recovery.<p>Maybe sell a $15 upcharge to conformal coat most of the logic board whenever you're doing a third party repair.
I love my macbok air m1 a lot. But I bought the 8gb model and I really would like to have 16 or 24gb RAM. It's really annoying that I can't just slap some RAM in it.