Apple’s 2018 MacBook Pros Attempt to Solve Flexgate, Without Admitting It Exists

Post by libertine » Wed, Mar 06, 2019, 1:10 PM UTC

akvadrako wrote: post #130

libertine wrote: post #120

The weirdest part of all of this is the recurrent problems of Apple products in peoples tech-life-time, and the same people, while annoyed, embrace it... and I just don't get it. If products fail on you consistently, why you keep buying them? It's 2019, there's a lot of great products out there, with way more quality than some Apple products. If the problem is the "ecosystem" you bought into, well maybe it was a mist…

Apple's is bad, but the alternatives are not much better. I mean just trying to shop for a laptop on Lenovo or Dell's website is a horrible experience.

Hmm but you aren't limited to buy it on manufacturers website, or are there models limit to their websites?

Post by koffiezet » Thu, Mar 07, 2019, 12:16 PM UTC

devwastaken wrote: post #36

CoolGuySteve wrote: post #12

A bigger problem imo is the $700 display replacement. I have a similar problem with my wife’s broken MacBook, where replacing the display costs almost as much as the computer itself. The problem with the MacBook is that the display is bonded to the glass and the aluminum back so that you have to replace the entire top assembly to fix the display. It’s even more depressing to know that the ribbon connecting the displa…

Yep, Louis rossman, a popular apple repair guy on YouTube talks similiar about this a lot. The overwhelming majority of problems are fixable for 10 minutes or less and less than a dollar in components. But apple will just tell you to buy a new board and purposefully makes it harder for repair. The whole 'sustainability' is a marketing act.

> The overwhelming majority of problems are fixable for 10 minutes or less and less than a dollar in components

By a skilled person having experience with electronics, who would be bored as hell to work as a simple employee in a repair shop, and conveniently ignoring what hiring such a person would would cost, and what it would take to do this reliably/QA.

In a small shop like Rossmans, this is relatively easy - but that does not scale at all.

Re: Apple’s 2018 MacBook Pros Attempt to Solve Flexgate, Without Admitting It Exists

Re: Apple’s 2018 MacBook Pros Attempt to Solve Flexgate, Without Admitting It Exists