The New MacBook Pro: Unfixable, Unhackable, Untenable • Hacker News Board

Re: The New MacBook Pro: Unfixable, Unhackable, Untenable

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Post by padobson » Tue, Jun 19, 2012, 5:38 PM UTC

lnanek2 wrote: post #138

taligent wrote: post #98

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What you are talking about makes absolutely no sense. There are completely different chipsets, ports, batteries etc in a MacBook Air versus a MacBook Pro. Most of which have dependencies on each other. So a user can't just spec out a machine with the exception of very specific components. Hence why they are branded differently.

Not to mention it costs a lot to offer configurability, rather than just ordering countless hordes of a few models from the factories...

Apple's supply chains operate on a 6-day turnaround. That means that a MBP that just arrived in the warehouse today will be shipped to a customer no later than a week from today.

That is one of Apple's greatest strengths, and having that strength absolutely allows them to offer configurability.

Re: The New MacBook Pro: Unfixable, Unhackable, Untenable

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Post by Tloewald » Wed, Jun 20, 2012, 6:01 PM UTC

sbalea wrote: post #54

minimax wrote: post #21

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> apple only charges $200 for the 16GB option Only $200? That's twice what it would cost to buy from Newegg.

The correct way to calculate this (using prices for the previous gen MBP as found on crucial.com) would be $160 for the 16GB kit - $46 for the 8GB kit = $114. Compare that to $200 and it's still more than 50% markup. Of course, these are retail prices, while Apple's BOM math will be totally different, but still...

The correct way to calculate this is look at the price next to the 16GB option. If a car configurator had a $1200 leather trim option would you try to deduct the price of non leather seats?

Re: The New MacBook Pro: Unfixable, Unhackable, Untenable

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Post by jonah » Thu, Jun 21, 2012, 12:11 AM UTC

jpxxx wrote: post #345

jonah wrote: post #295

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This general idea - that refurbs are more thoroughly tested and therefore more reliable - has been confirmed to me by Apple staff. My guess is that it's primarily the likelihood of failure soon after purchase which is greatly decreased.

Let's put this to bed. Returns and refurbs alike are binned into lots of, say, 50 units. Third party repair companies bid on them. The winner takes possession, runs triage according to apple protocols and apple diagnostic tools, performs any needed repairs out of pocket, and then places them up for sale linking in to Apple's web store. The products may also be sold in-store. Any purchase of a refurb is fulfilled from…

Are you saying that if I buy a refurb iPad from apple.com it's been processed by some skeezy repair shop?

Do you have references for this?