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Even if Apple uses high quality components that fail less frequently, it's still computer hardware at the end of the day. Hardware fails, no matter how much QA
by martinp 11y ago
Even if Apple uses high quality components that fail less frequently, it's still computer hardware at the end of the day. Hardware fails, no matter how much QA you do, so #2 is never moot.
Experienced bad memory on a MBP Retina (late 2013) recently, it was purchased in December 2013. You can't swap out the memory because it's soldered to the motherboard, so the entire motherboard has to be ordered from Apple and replaced.
This wouldn't be so bad if you could easily move the SSD to a new Mac, but that's not an option either.
- hyperbovine 11y agoSo you shell out $1500 for one of these guys plus AppleCare. Three years of free, no questions asked repairs, then the thing lives an indeterminate amount of time, dies, and you do it all over again. When you look at how much people are comfortable spending these days on wireless, cell phones, digital services in general, I think most of us are fine with that scenario. The days of buying a PS/2 in hopes of passing it down to your grandkids are long gone.