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It's impossible to do self repairs on macbooks these days. Apple intentionally solders all the components together to prevent self repair. Even the battery is
by scottydelta 4y ago
It's impossible to do self repairs on macbooks these days.
Apple intentionally solders all the components together to prevent self repair. Even the battery is soldered to the system.
https://9to5mac.com/2019/07/12/2019-13-macbook-pro-teardown/ https://9to5mac.com/2019/07/12/2019-13-macbook-pro-teardown/
- kayodelycaon 4y agoTechnical quibble here. The batteries are glued to the case, not soldered to anything. The power cables still use connectors and can be easily popped off.
- foldr 4y agoThey solder components to save space and increase the reliability and power efficiency of the connections. Apple doesn’t care about self repair, but they aren’t using solder instead of connectors as part of a scheme to actively thwart it.
- scottydelta 4y agoApple is literally known for their anti-right-to-repair stance. There is a youtuber named Louis Rossman(1.7 million followers) fighting Apple on this since more than a decade. Here is his channel: https://youtube.com/user/rossmanngroup https://youtube.com/user/rossmanngroup
- stingrae 4y agoI would argue that they aren't anti right-to-repair. They are against poor quality repairs. The issue is if you let individuals and 3rd party stores do repairs, there is no way to validate that they are doing it in a reliable/quality fashion. This is especially problematic when phones are getting more and more resilient to various environments (Like the addition of IP68) When a customer has a repair done poorly and issues come up, they come to Apple for support.
- prvit 4y agoRossman isn’t exactly trustworthy. Remember this? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw3-j_RaX74 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tw3-j_RaX74
- scottydelta 4y agoShows the video as private. I cannot watch it.
- prvit 4y agoRossmann went on a drunken, paranoid rant about how the macbook webcam has secret hardware to spy on him. He took the video down after widespread ridicule. Original video is mirrored on archive.org https://archive.org/details/Kat.crlouis.rossmann.backup/what's+up+with+that+4+gb+man-tw3-j_RaX74.mp4# https://archive.org/details/Kat.crlouis.rossmann.backup/what... Not sure if that link goes straight to the right video. It’s the last video of the playlist, titled “what’s up with that 4 gb man”
- foldr 4y agoYou’re conflating two separate issues: (i) Is Apple anti right to repair? (ii) Does Apple solder certain components primarily because it makes repair more difficult? Even if the answer to (i) is yes, the answer to (ii) can be no. Most unpluggable components in most laptops are never intentionally unplugged over the lifetime of the device. Connectors take up space, can come unplugged accidentally, and degrade signal quality. Those are the reasons for soldering components in a modern laptop.
- kjkjadksj 4y agoAt this point I’m thinking the 2012 I own could be the last laptop I bother buying. Its performant enough for being a day to day computer with an ssd and 16gb ram, and these days if I need more horsepower for one job I’m better off using a server. Plus the parts are so cheap on ebay and you can do most repairs with a phillips head screwdriver.
- vbezhenar 4y agoYou can use heater and solvent to deal with glue. It's not impossible. Not DYI-friendly - for sure.
- cmatthias 4y ago> DYI Do Yourself It?
- sudosysgen 4y agoThe solvent has a propensity of getting into other components and ruining them, esp. the trackpad.
- amelius 4y ago> Apple intentionally solders all the components together to prevent self repair. As much as I like to bash Apple, it could also be that they soldered/glued everything to miniaturize the product further, for example.