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It's good that apple products are sturdy and get updates longer than other devices. There are still some issues though: There are some hindrances to repairing:
by legulere 11y ago
It's good that apple products are sturdy and get updates longer than other devices. There are still some issues though: There are some hindrances to repairing: Glued in batteries, soldered on RAM, soldered on/proprietary connector SSDs. This also means that apple devices can't be upgraded (not really a problem with storage on the mac, as you can use external hard drives, but on iOS devices it's a problem. Upgradable ram would definetly prolong the lifetime of a device). Even when Apple does those repairs, they're way more expensive because of those things.
Another way how Apple pushes planned obsolescence is by not giving certain features to older devices. Adblocking and the new colour temperature setting for instance are only available on 64 bit devices while older devices would be perfectly capable to also have them.
- threeseed 11y agoYou can take your phone/laptop into an Apple Store and for <$100 the battery will be replaced in a few days during which time they lend you an equivalent device. Batteries either need to be completely removable (which increases the size) or having them glued in or not is irrelevant. I wasn't that keen on Apple abandoning upgradeable RAM/SSD for laptops but to be honest neither has been an issue for the last few years. There isn't any applications that are driving the need for more RAM and the SSDs are upgradeable anyway. As for mobiles does any company allow RAM to be upgraded ?
- legulere 11y agoIt costs more than 100$ for macbooks: https://support.apple.com/kb/index?page=servicefaq&geo=United_States&product=Macnotebooks https://support.apple.com/kb/index?page=servicefaq&geo=Unite... It's important to note how the retina macbook pro and 12 inch macbook are the most expensive - 70$ more than all other macbooks in the 11"-15" range. Probably because of their glued in battery that needs to be replaced as a whole together with parts of the case.
- toomanybeersies 11y agoIt's all part of a trade-off. My Macbook Air wouldn't be so thin if if had upgradable RAM and SSD.
- legulere 11y agoThe SSD of the Macbook Air is replaceable, it's just using a proprietary slot and form factor. It would have been just as possible with mSATA cards, and is just as possible today with M.2 cards. Apple could switch to M.2 today, as they switched between slot types all the time: http://www.techspot.com/articles-info/768/images/LSI_blog-ssds-everything-image7-LR.jpg http://www.techspot.com/articles-info/768/images/LSI_blog-ss... There probably also still would be enough space for one ram slot, it's not thicker than the ssd which also sits on top of the main board.
- givinguflac 11y agomSATA and M.2 are insanely slow compared to their current choice of PCIe, which is NOT a proprietary slot and FF.
- legulere 11y agoM.2 supports both PCIe and SATA as the protocol. The SSDs in MacBooks used SATA as a protocol until a certain point. Now they use PCIe as a protocol. But that's not what I'm talking about, I'm talking about the physical measures of the slot and the form factor of the card. They always have been proprietary although standards that are just as good existed.