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Well don't be very excited. Have you heard of Louis Rossmann? He has some videos on Youtube regarding Apple's tactics to make its hardware hard to repair and ri

Well don't be very excited. Have you heard of Louis Rossmann? He has some videos on Youtube regarding Apple's tactics to make its hardware hard to repair and ripoff people who get them repaired at the Apple Stores. Even CBC did a story on it.

finchisko 8y ago
Yes, I know this guy. I don't like the Apple repair (not) strategy. However I've also experience with several other laptop manufacturers. There are at least 5 laptops lying somewhere in my house. Most of them have broken hinges or broken plastic chassis so you can see inside them. Only exception is Toshiba with Pentium3 processor. Ancient but still rock solid, with no sign of wear (I could use it if it wasn't that slow). And the other one is this 6y old Macbook Air. What I'm trying to say, is that people bitch about the Apple, but there many other horrible brands (models) out there. But there is not enough buyers to point that out as loud as in Apple case. However the butterfly keyboard scares me a bit. They say it has been fixed, but personally don't have any feedback from Macbook Pro users and also this Air keyboard can be bit different.
paulcole 8y ago
My employer buys my computer. Doesn't matter to me how repairable it is.
matt4077 8y ago
This tired conspiracy theory neglects a few thing: - Consumers have aptly demonstrated that they prefer low weight and thinness over expandability and replaceability. That's one of many reasonable explanations that do not assume bad faith. - While repairs have gotten more difficult, reliability has increased at an even faster pace. Notebook components have failure rate far lower than a decade ago. The largest single change was the transition from mechanical, failure-prone HDDs to SSDs. The second largest change were improvements to batteries: these have an expected useable lifetime of 5 years+, whereas in the past it was maybe two years, and only you took specific care such as regular draining. - Material science and manufacturing have also improved, allowing tighter specification: If your washing machine survives two decades that is a major failure of engineering. That's because over-provisioning is wasteful, and ecologically harmful. Even in cases grow fond of such old machines, it is actually better to have them fail at some point, because improvements in power consumption more than compensate for shorter lifecycles.

finchisko 8y ago

Yes, I know this guy. I don't like the Apple repair (not) strategy. However I've also experience with several other laptop manufacturers. There are at least 5 laptops lying somewhere in my house. Most of them have broken hinges or broken plastic chassis so you can see inside them. Only exception is Toshiba with Pentium3 processor. Ancient but still rock solid, with no sign of wear (I could use it if it wasn't that slow). And the other one is this 6y old Macbook Air. What I'm trying to say, is that people bitch about the Apple, but there many other horrible brands (models) out there. But there is not enough buyers to point that out as loud as in Apple case. However the butterfly keyboard scares me a bit. They say it has been fixed, but personally don't have any feedback from Macbook Pro users and also this Air keyboard can be bit different.

paulcole 8y ago

My employer buys my computer. Doesn't matter to me how repairable it is.

matt4077 8y ago

This tired conspiracy theory neglects a few thing: - Consumers have aptly demonstrated that they prefer low weight and thinness over expandability and replaceability. That's one of many reasonable explanations that do not assume bad faith. - While repairs have gotten more difficult, reliability has increased at an even faster pace. Notebook components have failure rate far lower than a decade ago. The largest single change was the transition from mechanical, failure-prone HDDs to SSDs. The second largest change were improvements to batteries: these have an expected useable lifetime of 5 years+, whereas in the past it was maybe two years, and only you took specific care such as regular draining. - Material science and manufacturing have also improved, allowing tighter specification: If your washing machine survives two decades that is a major failure of engineering. That's because over-provisioning is wasteful, and ecologically harmful. Even in cases grow fond of such old machines, it is actually better to have them fail at some point, because improvements in power consumption more than compensate for shorter lifecycles.