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I don't really get the point of the article. Mac builds sturdy laptops, and who cares if they use 5 screws or 500 screws to do it. If Macs design is inefficient
by Electro 19y ago
I don't really get the point of the article. Mac builds sturdy laptops, and who cares if they use 5 screws or 500 screws to do it. If Macs design is inefficient and expensive then someone will trump them. However, I've had packages delivered damaged because they paste one strip of tape over the main part of the flap; One package even arrived with the tape a good inch off of the flap, so it made it all the way to my house with half of it being open, and if -- like other companies do -- they had taped along the edges too, it wouldn't have meant half my stuff went missing and cost the company over $200.
- Elepsis 19y agoEveryone who has ever had to work in IT cares. When you need 81 screws to replace a motherboard (as a previous example cited) you wind up spending a magnitude of time longer fiddling with a laptop just to fix it. Multiply that times 100 and you have long support times and disgruntled workers. The attitude that a laptop has to have eighty billion screws to be well-engineered is nonsense. Thinkpads are the perfect example -- they are known for being extremely sturdy and tough, but also have a reputation for being remarkably easy to work with in terms of parts replacement, etc. Defending Apple for "wanting to make sure it works perfectly" does not hold water -- we may as well admit that they don't really want _you_ poking around in your own computer under any circumstances.