Thinking of Switching from Windows to Mac – Need Your Advice!

[codwapeace]

As someone who's never had a mac, can't we just buy the 256gb and swap out the internal SSD or is the storage soldered too?

No. The storage is soldered.

 

[gourav]

As someone who's never had a mac, can't we just buy the 256gb and swap out the internal SSD or is the storage soldered too?

SSD is soldered. But more than that, the storage controller is built into the SOC and the SSD is just plain flash memory. So even if you manage to swap it out, it will not work.

With the M series, they went full on non-standardised parts.