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> Repairability 1 out of 10 This is my main reason to stop buying Apple hardware, not so much the lack of an Esc key. The Mid 2012 model still scored 7 / 10.
by bwindels 10y ago
> Repairability 1 out of 10
This is my main reason to stop buying Apple hardware, not so much the lack of an Esc key. The Mid 2012 model still scored 7 / 10.
- maxerickson 10y agoI have used 1 Apple device in the last 15 years, an iPod shuffle I got as a gift (I shorted it out by sweating near it). Are other manufacturers doing much better? On my older laptop, the HDD is 2 screws to access. On the laptop my mom used previously, you had to take the CPU fan assembly out after removing the keyboard to get at the HDD.
- vollmond 10y agoMy one-year-old Dell gaming laptop has one screw holding the entire bottom panel on, with ram/hdd/ssd/etc all easily accessible once it's off.
- EpicEng 10y agoWas the HDD soldered in place once you got there?
- maxerickson 10y agoI gave up when I looked at the procedure.
- Shivetya 10y agowell let us all be honest here, laptops have always been difficult to repair if at all regardless of manufacturer due to custom parts required just to meet the form factor. Desktops only if your not an all in one design are repairable if that is describable but costs of new hardware being so low its usually for many to just replace the whole machine. I don't even worry about tablet/phone repair. On my iPhone4 I did replace the back glass a bunch of times and was more happy when they changed to anything but glass backs
- saurik 10y agoI know Kyle from iFixit, and while he does care a lot about the ability of end users to make repairs themselves, he truly also believes in the inherent waste of equipment not being able to be repaired by anyone, and those even slightly-older Apple laptops are absolutely still repairable by Apple as Apple simply stocks those "custom parts required just to meet the form factor" (hence 7/10 dropping to 1/10).
- SyneRyder 10y agoI bought a Mid-2012 in late 2015 partly for this reason. If the hard drive dies, I should be able to swap it out myself. Apple's maximum storage was 1TB when I bought it, but I'll be able to upgrade this machine to a 2TB SSD if I want. I still miss the 2006 MacBook design though. That made replacing the hard drive, RAM & battery extremely easy to do yourself.
- seanp2k2 10y agoOr just get a Thinkpad or Inspiron where the hdd, DVD drive, wifi card, battery, and ram all just snap into place. Apple has never been good at that, but in return you get a bit more solid (physically) piece of kit.
- SyneRyder 10y agoThat's probably the direction I'm going in future. At the moment I need macOS because it's a platform I develop for, but if the Mac market tanks enough that I can drop my Mac lineup, then I'll move back to a Windows / Linux laptop. A large part of my Mac use is in Windows VMs anyway.