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New Anti-Consumer MacBook Pros – Teardown and Repair Assessment [video]
- jarym 3y agoI wonder what's it like at an Apple Store when you go in for an in-warranty replacement - does a Genius in the back have to go through this process of removing so many screws and carefully wrestling with the internals or do they have some hardware to assist this process?
- pohuing 3y agoDon't they just transfer the data and chuck your old device in the bin?
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- FirmwareBurner 3y agoBut they're compensating for that added e-waste and environmental damage by not giving you a charger in the box for, you know, saving the planet and all that. /s
- windowsrookie 3y agoI know it was sarcasm, but all Apple Laptops and iPads come with a charger.
- FirmwareBurner 3y agoI was referring to the iPhone but you're right.
- windowsrookie 3y agoThere were 8 screws to remove the bottom of the laptop. That's about the same maybe even less than most PC laptops I've worked on. I believe Apple will do simple repairs in the store. Battery replacement, screen replacement, etc. The logic board failed on my M1 MacBook Air, I brought it to an Apple Store and they did some diagnostics but said they had to mail it to a repair center. It was overnight shipped to some facility in Texas.
- mojuba 3y agoInteresting. The flip side of this is that it's probably a good anti-theft measure. You can't steal an Apple laptop for repair parts anymore. As someone who has repaired MBP's in the past, I'm not a big fan of unrepairability, but on the other hand this is sort of... good?
- adriancr 3y agoHow is this acceptable though?, how big of a problem is theft that users give up repair for? Compare to framework - transform motherboard and cpu into a home server, replace components yourself if they break, upgrade as you wish. For apple, if anything breaks you have to buy another one after warranty, if battery swells you do what?, if you drop it and screen cracks? ssd reaches end of life or fails like anything else?
- mojuba 3y agoWell, expect some EU regulations around that. All I was saying was that the reason Apple added these tricks wasn't (only) unrepairability but more anti-theft. I don't want to defend their decision though.
- shortrounddev2 3y agoI highly doubt these are anti-theft. Apple simply wants you to give them more money
- theshrike79 3y agoCan you think of any companies who don't want you to give them more money? The "Apple wants money" stick is shaken every time, but isn't that true for every company ever that's isn't a literal charity?
- shortrounddev2 3y agoWhat I meant to say was Apple is run by unscrupulous thieves who design products around the strategy of milking their customers for every last penny they have, while at the same time devising a marketing strategy so that those same customers thank their corporate overlords for the opportunity to get robbed blind
- 7e 3y agoThe "Pro" stands for "professional". What other types of professional equipment is designed to be maintained by consumers? Division of labor is the foundation of civilization.
- dns_snek 3y agoThat's a false dichotomy. Laptops should be repairable by any sufficiently skilled and equipped repair technician. Apple is clearly going out of their way to make that impossible with proprietary parts, tools, procedures, exclusivity agreements with their suppliers and more. In the video you have someone who is clearly skilled enough to perform the repair, with brand new original parts and yet - Apple and their engineers made sure that the repair wouldn't succeed.