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Upgrading a laptop might increase its useful service life, but if bought well-specced, this isn't the biggest problem. The elephant in the room are repairs. Du
by _ph_ 7y ago
Upgrading a laptop might increase its useful service life, but if bought well-specced, this isn't the biggest problem.
The elephant in the room are repairs. Due to the design, too many repairs are not economic, so machines get thrown away early. Repairs, which should cost way less with a design that at least allows repairability.
- Sangeppato 7y agoExactly. When I had some sticky keys on a 2015 MacBook Pro, the Genius told me that the only way to fix that was to replace the whole top case and it wouldn't have been cheap. I just went home, searched a bit on YouTube, removed the keycaps and cleaned them. It's the same for batteries: they want you to replace the whole top case for a stupid battery that they could have made much easier to remove (it's still possible to do it BTW)