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> For me, its enviromentally insane to buy such a device that is nearly unrepairable. I would generally feel the same, the only reason I don't is that Apple la

> For me, its enviromentally insane to buy such a device that is nearly unrepairable. I would generally feel the same, the only reason I don't is that Apple laptops tend to last a very long time for me and get replaced due to becoming obsolete, not due to becoming nonfunctioning. My 2011 MBA was in use until 2016, my 2015 MBP is still in use and due to be replaced soon. The lifespan of one of these devices is roughly 5 years in my use case, and I usually hand them down to someone else that needs a decent computer but where my use cases have outgrown it. I know one I handed off is still being used 10 years after it was purchased and it still works "fine" for some value of fine. That's not an argument against repairability, but to say that a well-made product often has a longer lifespan than a useful lifespan for its original owner.

KennyBlanken 4y ago
A large number of Macbook Pros from around 2013-2015 have had failed SSDs. Mine failed 4 years ago. Because I was able to put in a new SSD - one twice the size and about twice the speed, I might add - I was able to keep using the system, and still am. I had to use an adapter, because Apple tried to discourage SSD replacement by using a proprietary pinout on the NVMe connector. If the soldered-on SSD in an M1 mac fails, you can't even boot the system. You can't send the system off to have someone do a board-level replacement, because apparently they do some bullshit to "pair" the flash chips with the flash controller. Apple has gone out of their way to take systems that used to be incredibly durable and long-lasting, and give them a very finite lifespan.