New Anti-Consumer MacBook Pros - Teardown And Repair Assessment - Apple Silicon M1/M2

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New Anti-Consumer MacBook Pros - Teardown And Repair Assessment - Apple Silicon M1/M2
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No surprises here. Just like the lockdown on iPhone screen and part replacements, Macbooks suffer from the same Apple's anti-repair and anti-consumer bullshit. Battery glued, ssd soldered in and can't even swap parts with other official parts. 6000$ laptop and you don't even own it.

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Build quality vs. The aluminum build materials are not equivalent comparison

I'm a PC person, I do NOT like apple, however about 7 years ago I started traveling for work more and had the option to get a MacBook (at the time way way better battery, screen) than our windows laptops. I was just carrying a thin closed laptop with me around, and others had their laptop, a charge cable, and a mouse to achieve the same level of use.

I fell in love with the thing as a whole. Could go 8h on battery, didn't need a mouse, didn't use a mouse or external monitors like I did when "home" with my windows laptop.

I still do not like apple, own/owned many generations of Pixel phones, I build my own windows PCs (last winter the most recent)

But we replaced our old HP 360 which was also aluminum, flip/touch screen (still a nice laptop) with a MacBook Air M1 when they came out because of my experience in both longevity, quality, ease of mobility use (the touchpad).

Still a PC guy but the three (2 from work) MacBooks I've had have been pretty amazing.

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