Could be worse, it could be a range rover 🤣🤣Imagine if Apple just sold the replacement parts without the DIY kit and left me to follow an already established step-by-step guide made by professionals.
Could be worse, it could be a range rover 🤣🤣Imagine if Apple just sold the replacement parts without the DIY kit and left me to follow an already established step-by-step guide made by professionals.
Yeah very true, but that laptop was two inches thick, and weighed seven pounds - so there was space for these things.My PowerBook 540c and PowerBook G3 both had hot swappable compartment bays for batteries. It is sad that these days people can only dream about such a great high-tech feature. It is borderline obscene that swapping a battery is considered to be a "repair".
But you would change the batteries in a remote control, right?I wouldn’t dream of opening up any Mac to repair it , I wouldn’t service a car why on earth would I do the same for a computer ?
Somethings are best left to the experts
This would be incredible and a major step forward for the company which has instead created this very odd ecosystem of third party part providers who are scavenging things from wrecked Teslas.Imagine if Telsa sends you a DIY Repair kit and instructs you to change the lithium battery of your car.![]()
Yeah, sure - because Apple is the only company on earth doing this.Is it true that we don’t care about the repairability or upgradeability if our products? I think a lot of people don’t care because Apple tells them not to care. People should be able to make their own decisions, not let businesses tell them what to do. You’re Apple’s spin doctor without knowing.
Apple — helping to increase literacy in the DIY world.162 pages????
There's a very niche market for it. Some things are better off leaving it to the professionals since they have studied the products for years instead of leaving it to the consumer.This would be incredible and a major step forward for the company which has instead created this very odd ecosystem of third party part providers who are scavenging things from wrecked Teslas.
Just because you are scared of using tools to fix something doesn't mean other people are.
Choices are not always good. Just because you can doesn’t mean you should. Again, choices are not always a good thing to have. Some people should never have a choice.You wouldn't, but someone else might. That's the beauty of having a choice.
For today's laptops (and phones) to have swappable batteries like back in the old days, they would need to be thicker. Swappable batteries require more space. They need room for hinges and clamps, or, at the very least, they need their access unobstructed by other components, which also then require moving around and re-placement in spaces that might not be the most efficient, necessitating even more room inside the device.My PowerBook 540c and PowerBook G3 both had hot swappable compartment bays for batteries. It is sad that these days people can only dream about such a great high-tech feature. It is borderline obscene that swapping a battery is considered to be a "repair".
Thin laptops are popular for some users -- not all users. While hot swappable batteries may no longer be a great solution as Apple battery life has improved so much, Apple designing a laptop where the batteries cannot be changed for less than $200 (and a week of lost time if professionally done by Apple) is a ridiculous compromise of form over function.Yeah very true, but that laptop was two inches thick, and weighed seven pounds - so there was space for these things.
Modern laptops are a fraction of both of those dimensions, and I'll bet hot-swappable batteries are very, very low on the average consumer (Apple's primary customer) list of things they care about.
Market demands smaller, thinner and lighter laptops (despite what you read on the MacRumours.com forums). Apple delivers on that request, as do dozens of other OEMs, with equally unrepairable laptops. How does iFixIt give the Dell XPS 15 (with integrated RAM and storage) a reparability score of 9/10? Bias much?
If you think people who fix their own things to save money is a "niche market" I would highly encourage you to leave the Bay Area echo chamber once in a while. What a truly baffling statement to make.There's a very niche market for it. Some things are better off leaving it to the professionals since they have studied the products for years instead of leaving it to the consumer.
Even disregarding the environment for a moment, it's just silly.Designing your battery attachment so that replacement requires replacement of the entire top case is a staggeringly anti-environmental move. What a wasteful, thoughtless move by Apple.