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
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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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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
)The majority of "people" perhaps, but not the majority of businesses (especially enterprises). There's a reason why brands such as Latitudes and Thinkpads are so popular with enterprises and other large organizations: repair-ability. And soldiered parts don't necessarily made them more robust.
I can swap a dead lenovo keyboard in about 30 minutes and have a user back up and running. I can swap the SSD storage on any of our lenovo's in about 10 minutes if need be.
if a laptop dies and needs to go to warranty, I can yank the drive out, put it into another laptop and the user continues working while we repair the machine without any change to data or workflow.
replacement and fixes can be done at just about any repair centre and take usually 1-2 days tops.
this is regular required work in an enterprise. And we're only talking about a small 200-300 person financial institution.
If I had to tell the CEO that if her laptop had a hardware failure the only solution was to be without her data or computer for 1-2 weeks while we send it in for repair, heads would roll. Especially if those repairs cost more than 1/3rd of the cost of the device in the first place. (we can get replacement keyboards for our lenovo's for about $50)
These new round of Mac laptosp arne't bad laptops. But the way they've been designed is clearly consumer focused first and not enterprise and not intended for long term large scale enterprise use. The lack of any sort of repairability means the turn around time should something go wrong is extended with additional risks of data loss should there be a problem. (replacing the motherboard shouldn't require replacing and losing all data)
Not all!
I’ve not needed to replace the battery on my late 2010 11” Air, and it’s highly unlikely I’ll need to do that before replacing it...
Honestly the keyboard's not a big issue to me, but the touchbar though, really needs to go. I still miss having a physical escape key. It's just weird hitting that area and not pressing down a physical key.
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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
I use proper cables. Weight be gone.
Take it to an Apple Store or Authorized Service Provider for repairs. If you dont like the prices or choices, take it to a 3rd party repair center.
Someone buys the 128 GB SSD model only to discover they need more storage after the return period is up. This is probably not something that would happen to an "elitist geek" and has nothing to do with whether or not they want to touch the insides, most certainly they do not. But this is an annoying situation that in the past would've been much more resolvable, exacerbated by the puny 128 GB SSD Apple is continuing to ship in the base model.
Plus there is the possibility of SSD failure, and paying the cost of an entire logic board to get it fixed is always fun.
Thanks for your good wishes! Last time I need a repair was in the old days with my two grater MacPros.
Not worried in the slightest. And much too busy to have that minutia on my mind.
Hopefully the last hurrah of the Ive-inspired form-over-function MacBook era.
The Flash Storage has been soldered to the motherboard since 2016. More interesting to me is the step down from two fans to only one.
But the Apple store can't service it either. They just replace the whole logic board and charge you dearly for it. A third party repair shops would often do a better job, replacing just the part that is damaged, for 10-25% of the cost of Apple repair. I would never go to a third party repair shop for the first two years of the laptops existence but later on I would, both because of budget reasons but also for environmental reasons.
Also remember that Apple can refuse to repair your product (and then you are screwed), if they think it's vintage (+4 years old) or they think you've been an annoying customer.. it's at their discretion. Third party repairs is a right you have (should have) to products own. Sad if you think otherwise. #righttorepair
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Glad to upgrade my 2015 MBP to 1TB soon.
Cost me $300 instead of $3000.
Cost me $300 instead of $3000.
Yeah those are realities of Apple's choices. But this has been true for iOS devices, Chromebooks, ultrabooks as well. But SSDs fail much less. For the argument about not enough space, Mac owners in the mid 2000s didn't open their machines either. But rather they got external storage, which was cheaper than Apple's upgrade prices. But I get your deep fears. I guess Apple machines aren't meant for you. But my original point still stands.
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Good for you. I can just get a 4TB external drive for less than 300.
I'm hoping for a new replacement keyboard that's rumoured for the "next" models. Either if they go back to the old type or a new kind that gives at least some key travel and none of the issues with the butterfly
The T2 chip would prevent most people from changing the SSD in any case
.Apple calls it security while many users believe that it's there to prevent user servicing.
Touch bar can go to hell. (Show stopper)
Crappy keyboard needs replacing.
Too heavy for the performance.
Too expensive with reasonable upgrades.
Nope.. pass
Crappy keyboard needs replacing.
Too heavy for the performance.
Too expensive with reasonable upgrades.
Nope.. pass
I can think of no other reason for Apple's incessant practice of gluing down batteries and soldering the SSD other than greed. There is absolute ZERO excuse in 2019 why you should not be able to replace your battery and upgrade your SSD after purchase date.
But how many had others touch the machines inside? I personally upgraded RAM or replaced the HD with an SSD in about 10 devices of friends back then and also know a lot of people who went to independent repairshops that upgraded/exchanged parts within hours without having to send the machine to Apple for a few days. Also this kind of smells like US-centric data, which is probably not represantative for the other 80%+ of mac sales.
Soldered parts do make them more robust. Less moving parts mean less permanent harm from physical damage.
Because you could upgrade your SSD in 5 minutes before they decided to solder it down.
provided there are apple shops in your country/vicinity. if the machine is user serviceable, the user might service it or find someone who can.
If you're okay with paying a 200% markup on an SDD then you be you. Other sane users can buy a low capacity dive and toss in a beefy OWC blade and save hundreds.