Apple Self-Repair available
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Meh. Have you seen a teardown of the POS Mac Studio? You cannot even replace the SSD even though it is socketed. It's serialized to the motherboard. The spare SSD slot is also unavailable to the "owner" of the computer because installing one, even from another Mac Studio does not permit the usage of said SSD.
I really don't know why anyone puts up with this bullshit. The OS? That's laughable at this point. Don't even get me started on the power supply design with exposed leads, soldered in non-upgradable RAM, etc. Absolute garbage.
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It’s not something most Mac users feel they’re “putting up with”.
To me the boy’s PC is an ongoing project we upgrade over time.
Mac is something I use for productivity and procrastination (not necessarily in that order). I wouldn’t think to upgrade components any more than I would with my phone.
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The debate between modular and monolithic designs is quite old and pervasive.
The modular PC architecture, pioneered by IBM in the 1980s, won big time against both the big mainframes and also against the consumer PCs, such as Commodore or Atari.
For phones, the tradeoffs seem to be a little different. I think phones are in fact at some level also rather modular, but that modularity is not exposed to the consumer.
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In the early 90s I was the proud owner of an original IBM XT, with a Hercules graphics card and of course a 5.25 inch floppy drive. I still regret that I gave this piece of history away at some point. I learned programming in Turbo Pascal on that computer.
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Apple Self Service Repair extended to M1 MacBook Air and MacBook Pro computers starting 2022 August 23.
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2022/08/apple-expands-self-service-repair-to-mac-notebooks/
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In the early 90s I was the proud owner of an original IBM XT, with a Hercules graphics card and of course a 5.25 inch floppy drive. I still regret that I gave this piece of history away at some point. I learned programming in Turbo Pascal on that computer.
@Klaus said in Apple Self-Repair available:
In the early 90s I was the proud owner of an original IBM XT, with a Hercules graphics card and of course a 5.25 inch floppy drive. I still regret that I gave this piece of history away at some point. I learned programming in Turbo Pascal on that computer.
Great keyboard.
