All laptops are disposable. What could you do to the previous model - replace the hard drive? Woo.
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Teardown of 13-inch MacBook Pro With Touch Bar Reveals 'Cosmetic' Speaker Grilles [Updated]
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All laptops are disposable. What could you do to the previous model - replace the hard drive? Woo.
I can't chime in. Apple got rid of that too. Sorry had to do it.
The mouse thing is silly. I have the mouse. Once a month I plug it in and then go have lunch or something and it's fully charged. There's no reason to ever let it get discharged. And if you get lazy and it happens anyway, then plug it in and go to the bathroom. When you come back, it will have enough charge for the rest of the day.
It's the non issue to rule all non issues.
My 2009 MBP is on death's doorstep and I really wanted to upgrade to the new model. However, this thing is a disaster. There is nothing that makes this 2016 model more tempting compared to the 2015 model.
Unfortunately, you're wrong. Apple doesn't just cram third-party components into a case. They spend a lot of effort engineering and designing, and redesigning. They have several custom chips to arrive at the final product. Many PC vendors *do* use just readily-available parts. Not Apple.
Does this response mean that I agree with all of Apple's decisions? Not at all! I'm really disappointed in some of their choices lately, particularly with designing Macs as throw-away (er, "recyclable") products, rather than making upgradeability a feature.
On Step 16 of the ifixit teardown, the second picture with the guitar pick lifting up the touch bar, appears to show light coming through the grill holes.
Looks to me like Apple is going to make it more cost effective for themselves to completely replace a computer than to repair one. Thereby allowing them to fire most of the people they hire to do the fixing now. If the average repair time, material cost, and physical labor is the same as the manufacturing price of a (in the not so distant future) robotically made device, it makes more sense to just replace the entire device and copy over the data which would be an automated task anyway.
Ack this headline is inaccurate, not sure who's fault it is but you can clearly see the holes going throw above the tweeter speaker:
https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/dwcGTXRBHLXjNG4W.huge
And iFixIt says "Judging from the through-holes under the smaller speaker, we assume this is a tweeter designed to produce high frequency audio."
Not sure whats going on with the rest of the holes though
https://d3nevzfk7ii3be.cloudfront.net/igi/dwcGTXRBHLXjNG4W.huge
And iFixIt says "Judging from the through-holes under the smaller speaker, we assume this is a tweeter designed to produce high frequency audio."
Not sure whats going on with the rest of the holes though
I bet your tune will change once you've given the Touch Bar a proper run. This is what Apple does... pulls us into the future, sometimes kicking and screaming.
Small does not automatically make it a tweeter. Think about iPhones that have good bass.... it's the design of the speaker that matters, not the size.
I want to know what Pro relies on removable SSD instead of backup, so I can never employ him on a project. I am beyond belief with this whole SSD thing, that people actually rely on that to recover their data. If the SSD goes, your data is gone. If the data corrupts, your data is gone. If the laptop is lost or stolen, your data is gone. ONLY a good backup regime covers every eventuality.
I know that's what the article says, but on some of the pictures it looks like they are drilled all the way through...
Will people please stop saying this is to let the WiFi out and read up on Faraday cages?
Even if the holes did go all the way through, it wouldn't make a difference...
Even if the holes did go all the way through, it wouldn't make a difference...
Modular components also lead to more failures in the first place. Every cable, connection, and poorly secured component is a future mechanical failure point.
Exactly my scenario which is why I found a NIB 2015 13" rMBP and after all the discounts, cost me $900. It was the $1299 version.
I bought the non-touchbar model. Besides a phone with touch screen, I prefer tactile feedback on input devices.
In my 20+ years of owning a Mac, I've only bought AppleCare once. Looks like I'm gonna have to make that twice. I'm starting to hate you Apple.
When the rumors started about the left speaker holes being purely cosmetic I was very vocal in saying there is no way Apple or Ive would do that. Boy did they prove me wrong...wtf is wrong with these people??
I wish they would have given us the option of buying a fully loaded non-touchbar version. I guess if they did that, few people would adopt the stupid touchbar. I'm less likely to complain about the pricing pain if I have at least some hope of doing my own repairs.