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> Every single one of their products is made for "use it two years, throw it away when it breaks and buy a new one". Unfortunately other companies aren't much b
by tedivm 9y ago
> Every single one of their products is made for "use it two years, throw it away when it breaks and buy a new one". Unfortunately other companies aren't much better, e.g. Microsofts Surface laptops which are impossible to repair.
That is completely false. I'm typing this on a "MacBook Pro (Retina, Mid 2012)" that still works great. The MacBook I had before that lasted me about five years as well. The laptop I had before that one did break after two years, but that was because my cat spilled a bunch of soda into it while it was running (and the genius bar people spent an entire weekend trying to recover data from it anyways, and then gave me a huge discount on a new one).
I get that it's a bit ridiculous that you can't add more ram, but realistically speaking the biggest upgrades come from the motherboard and processor architecture and there's not a lot of laptops that will let you swap that out anyways.