>“We are delighted to see the strong customer response to our new products, as well as the progress we’re making to become carbon neutral across our supply chain and our products by 2030. We are committed, as ever, to being a force for good in the world — both in what we create and what we leave behind.”<
Really, Tim? Is that why you solder components down to make them difficult to replace? You're not a force for good, you try to make as much money as possible at the expense of the consumer. Take your fake sanctimony and put it in your savings account.
As explained in a article I cited a while ago just because things are "replaceable" doesn't mean they are actually replaceable via exclusive designed RAM or BIOSes that won't work with certain hardware. Heck, the PC market has issues with fake CPUs and RAM -
I Ordered a FAKE Ryzen 5 3600 from Best Buy and
The Dirty Way Manufacturers are Downgrading Your PC. As II pointed out before soldered components is a cost saving process in manufacturing:
"The issue isn't that manufacturers just don't care, though; believe it or not, there are actual reasons behind this sometimes frustrating design decision. First and possibly foremost is
manufacturing efficiency, which includes both
quality control and cost reduction.
Every additional removable piece, especially including a SODIMM slot, introduces more cost and another potential fail point. Plus, an actual RAM socket requires an actual human being be there to plug a RAM chip into every laptop that goes down the assembly line, further adding to cost.
More pertinent, though, is the fact soldered RAM can be placed just about wherever engineers decide. With proper research and development, this can lead to streamlined mainboard design as well as increased thermal efficiency. It also means there's no need to include a bulky connector or an access door, and all told, these benefits combine to let laptop designers shave millimeters off case thickness. As increasingly slim iterations of MacBooks and
Ultrabooks have proven, the average consumer often appreciates having the most compact device they can get." - The scourge of fully soldered and non-upgradeable laptops
Never mind Apple has a return your old device but what do you think largely happens to that "replaceable" stuff in PCs goes? Into the freaking landfill; so replaceable is
more harmful to the environment.