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Base 2019 13-Inch MacBook Pro Teardown Reveals Larger Battery, Soldered-Down SSD, and Updated Keyboard Material
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Interesting questions. Some companies destroy their memory and drive modules.
But, people seem to send their MacBooks into Apple without wiping them.
I just swapped the drive every time Apple had to "repair" my cMBP.
I am going to guess you were the exception more than the rule.
I just don't see most Mac users having any idea on how to open up their system, let alone swap a drive and reassemble it. And on some systems it was really hard. iMacs used to require some deep surgery to get to the drive.
For IT departments it would be trivial.
Another point against Apple laptops in the enterprise.
Or anybody who actually cares about their data.
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We have a mix of them at work, and I have a little laugh with myself each time they need to do something or connect up to a display. They all carry little bags of dongles which amuses me.....(there's your extra weight)
or, as many of us would think: your peripherals need upgrading.
peripherals are peripherals.
apple pushes forward.
deal with it.
many large corporations as well as smaller enterprises are learning that creating faster plug and play environments based on advanced platforms give the organization advantages.
It actually has more vulnerable connectors that can get easily damaged compared to a single board. Thats why iPads & iPod Touch & iPhones are so reliable.
How would people damage them if they normally don't open their devices?
SSDs arent getting much more faster, RAM is more or less not going to change your workflows unless you are in very scientific field or very specific workflows. Batteries can be changed by 3rd parties.
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Dropping. Getting knocked around in bags, luggage, water spills, rain,etc.
Thats when I suggest people should look at Desktops. Like 27inch iMacs, Mac Mini ,Dell , HP ones.
If you are a person with 32GB needs now, you might need 64 ,128 or 256 GB RAM in the future. In those cases I would say you should get a Windows Tower,Mac Pro or an enterprise tower.
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Laptops in general aren't meant for forever expansion. Desktops are more suitable for that.
You could put 32GiB RAM in a power laptop in 2014. Now you can put 128GiB.
You cannot use a tower in transport.
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True. I never considered that as "cloud". and that's how we are doing it. 2 datacentres replicating data with multiple sets of backups of all devices.
Unfortunately, some of our software is massively legacy. such is banking.
Anyways, Most of that all becomes moot once we finish our horizons environment. Than I don't care what our end users use. Life will be so much easier.
Thankfully, our users don't typically go far from head office. They do move around a lot, but within a reasonably managable geographic area. Typically, even if the user is out, we can have a working copy in their hands within 15 minutes. something happens to the machine and it's not the drive? 5 minute swap to identical machine. User is out the door.
Sorry, that came out more confusing than intended.
We are not allowed to ship the storage medium to repair centers that have data on them.
when we ship back, we swap in a non-data used clone.
I know, much of our rules seem draconic. But we have thousands of people's data, banking, personal, etc. It would kill me to have a breach on my watch.
Everything is workable. That's how I tackle every single problem.
But at the same time, Why put up with something that adds time or cost to a process that already is pretty good?
I accept doing things like soldered down stuff when there is either a dramatically massive technologically reason for it, or some sort of design restraint that cannot be overcome under any other means.
There's a pattern of Apple devices that seem like they are choosing to go these routes for the purpose of driving sales. Not because of real technical reason. They COULD do it. They just don't want to.
1. True
but...
2. If the data is that sensitive, wouldn't it be encrypted? And/Or part of a network-user/network-folder configuration on a corp server where the user logs into their data from an otherwise blank device?
I'm not advocating for soldered or thinner anything, but...
If they care about the data, wouldn't it be encrypted and/or on a corp. server and not on a laptop that could just as easily be stolen while traveling on business, at a coffee shop before going to work, or from a car when going to the bathroom at a gas station, as compromised when sending in for service?
There's plenty of good reasons to want to be able to quickly service a device in-house in a corp environment, but I'm not sure data management/tracking/security is one of them?
In the common case you would just need to login.
When I had to give my Macs for repair, they asked for the password.
Riiiiiiiiiiight....
With over 20 years in IT (including a lot of purchasing), I have literally NEVER sat in a meeting about new tech purchasing & had someone say: “yeah, but you know all our silly & irresponsible users... they’re just going to trash any expensive tools we issue them. What can we buy that’s like industrial & can be put back together like a set of legos?”
I have repaired maybe 20-25 laptops (broken screen, damaged keyboard, exploded battery, etc.) over the years. I think I have upgraded precisely 2.
That’s super, super, super, super RARE.
Like EXTREMELY (are you getting that?).
It’s all but unheard of.
Most businesses are on a 3-5 year refresh cycle on their computers.
At that age it almost always makes more sense to buy new than pull all them to IT for upgrades.
And you’re staffed wrong if you have a guy on payroll with nothing better to do but days solid of hardware upgrades.
And despite YOUR hyperbole sir, SSDs are unequivocally most definitely absolutely NOT prone to failure!!!
I believe lifetime failure rates hover around .5%, so I guess you’re going through about 200 machines to find a single one that fails, yeah?
Can you please share with us the source of this data?
Apple doesn't repair though, they charge you what it costs to buy a new one so you buy a new one.
Wow, I never thought of myself as a "elitists" for having the knowledge to upgrade/repair my own computers plus save money without using the Genius/idiot bar. I guess I need to realize that there's some who don't have the time, some who will just pay, some lazy, some incapable, some not handy, some idiots and some who only use/need an iPhone for texting and emails to function.
There's a reason Apple is investing more into services.......certain type of society.
I haven't seen data on it, but I do buy into the argument that Apple's all-in-one logic board design is more durable, less prone to failure. In theory, the savings due to increased durability might offset the extra time needed for individual repairs.
Business customers don't upgrade their machines, they buy them to spec. Like you said, in enterprise, to the user every issue is fixed by swapping out the machine and - one way or another - doing the repair to the other machine behind the scenes. That's why I don't think the all-in-one laptop design is really a material hinderance to business customers.
Maybe someone can help me. I just ordered a refurbished MacBook Pro at 10 AM this morning because I NEED it for next week. I did not think they were about to announce new 13" but what I got is $2189 CAD and has 16GB RAM and 256 GB storage, 4 core 2.4gz , so it is specced almost identically to the new 1.4ghz and priced identically to it. The only difference is the refurb one has a the 655 graphics instead of the 645. As far as i can tell the new one is probably not noticably faster CPU wise so I should stick with the faster graphics card right? Is the keyboard going to make that much of a difference? Especially if I just can use a bluetooth keyboard most of the time anyways? Apparently the new one is slightly higher in multicore but not likely to see it,
My needs for the computer are light 4k video editing, light photo editing, mostly just a boring work machine.
My needs for the computer are light 4k video editing, light photo editing, mostly just a boring work machine.