But typically it's 7 for hardware repairs, until it is declared obsolete.
That seems like a pretty reasonable amount of time for the machine to last and be repairable.
Yes, these Macs tend to be sold for at least 2 years, so 7 years from launch it's reasonable, but 7 years since the stop selling is not always the case (except in some countries like France where it's required by the law), although sometimes third-party authorized repair shops do it for a couple of years longer than Apple themselves...
But for most people it's a tradeoff that only costs them money and doesn't really benefit them at all. (and is actually a hinderance)
ifixit will come out with a video or an article in the next couple days that is sure to be a bit more comprehensive than Luke Miani‘s effort, which I applaud..…… i’m still keeping my fingers crossed that there’s a way for people, or there will be a way for people to upgrade the storage at home if they so choose…… anyone on the fence and depressed about the storage issue should wait for the iFixit report which will probably be very comprehensive, as to what is possible with the storage modules on the new Mac studio.
I am very skeptical about upgradability, reparability is the maximum Apple seems to be willing to go, given all the barriers they have made. It's still better than the MacBooks, which are not even reparable if the SSD fails.
I'm with you. I also don't want my SSD's encrypted -- so I can get data off of them if I need to.
You may no longer be the target market for Apple products.
you can always keep your data on a NAS or other external storage depending on your usecase... relying on data-recovery from a built-in drive is always a bit of a risk.
When did you buy it from them? Had it been declared obsolete yet?
I'm not quite so confident but it really doesn't matter, no way am I going to open up my Studio, it's just not built to be easily worked on, and I'm not the best to do it. (I don't really have good finger/hand dexterity) I work on Windows PC's when I have to, even laptops, but they are quite a bit different than current Apple hardware. Lenovo Thinkpads are almost as easy to fix as a desktop.
My NAS is not working storage, it's WAY WAY too slow, it's just for backups, and there will *always* be a period of time in between changing data and having it backed up, even if it's only minutes, you *will lose something*. Even if you have a mirroring backup, it's just too slow.
The trouble with that is t goes against the green aspect. If you purchase a computer for a year and then toss it, it might end up in a landfill.
So it could be repaired and not go into landfill, you just don’t want to pay for it?
But it’s true. Apple can’t make all products for all people, and you may have simply fallen out of the target market either because your needs have changed, or Apple is no longer interested in serving customers such as you.
I never was the target market for Apple. I use Mac's at home in spite of that. I'm a business IT guy, Apple has never targeted that. More's the pity, they might have a much bugger market share if they did.
I’m not sure if Apple are interested in market share more than they are interested in profit share.
