It's really not though. Can you yourself replace the battery or the SSD? If not, it's irreplaceable for all intents and purposes. Enjoy waiting for your work t

It's really not though. Can you yourself replace the battery or the SSD? If not, it's irreplaceable for all intents and purposes. Enjoy waiting for your work tool which puts food on the table while it's in the shop I guess. My machines are orders of magnitude less expensive than your quote, so I have others on standby and I can take a ride up the street to buy parts if I don't feel like waiting a day for delivery. > With the laptop connected in clamshell mode. For those of us not part of the Apple cult/SV bubble in-group, that just means "closed" right? What a shitty form factor though. It takes up desk space while limiting you to a single external display. All those hard and soft limitations so you can drag a single machine into a meeting or work (poorly) on a couch or in a cafe is an absolutely terrible tradeoff. In the age of syncing everything over the Internet the value of a single machine is negative. Putting all the eggs into one basket has never been a good idea. And who even needs their entire machine in a meeting? Anyone that is doing creative work during a meeting is thoroughly doing it wrong. I would tell you to give a couple of desktops a try but I guess if you're Apple's prisoner already you'll be out $10k if you want properly outfitted desktop machines for your home and office.