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Would be nice to have a law saying anything with a reasonable expectation of wear must be user replaceable. For example, every modern Mac will turn into e-wast
by 999900000999 2y ago
Would be nice to have a law saying anything with a reasonable expectation of wear must be user replaceable.
For example, every modern Mac will turn into e-waste within a decade since that SSD has to wear out. I don't care how high of a quality SSD you use, it just won't last forever.
My 2-year-old MacBook Air would be the perfect computer if I could just put a larger SSD in it, but I can't. So I'm already looking at buying a new computer.
- wtallis 2y agoHow many SSDs have you worn out in your personal computers? They've been affordable for over a decade, so I assume you must have exhausted the write endurance on at least one drive, right?
- 999900000999 2y agoI honestly don't keep my computers that long, but from a practical point of view my 256GB SSD in my MacBook isn't really cutting it anymore.
- DaSHacka 2y agoThe abysmal storage capacity inside MacBooks is a somewhat uniquely-Apple issue, its not so oppressive in most other laptops (though, most also use modular storage) Most R2R arguments address hardware wear (like battery/SSD degradation and physically broken parts that need to be replaced) rather than expandability and future-proofing (like increasing the size of your SSD/RAM or installing a faster CPU)