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AppleCare is a good idea in general. Even if you’re generally careful, you never know when the mac will break because of something that was your fault
I really don't want to own objects that are so needy the require their own insurance policy.
How about your body? Medical and life insurance are nearly universal.
I've looked at the ifixit videos and it's just a lot of screws to remove, but seems doable. The main thing is that for spending $300, I cannot tell on Ebay/Amazon which sellers are actually selling legit display assemblies versus those that are "offbrand" or have some issue where the Truetone setting is no longer available (to name one issue they point out).
It's even hard to tell whether the unit you order will have the Apple logo on the aluminum cover.
Anyway, it's $300 + potential aggravation do it yourself versus $600 have the Apple service "genius" do it.
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And that's why you get Apple Care with your MacBook.
That feels like saying "And that's why you pay the Mafia their protection money." These screens are breaking because they're defective, which is what the warranty is supposed to cover. Why should you have to pay Apple more money for them to do what they're already supposed to do?
Dell is the same. IIRC, HP was too. There's nothing to see here.
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Insurance is never a good idea in general, except if you can't risk paying for it yourself.
Which is nonsense, the whole point of insurance (and why most people should purchase insurance) is to pool risk so to cover high costs that most can’t afford for themselves.
My 14" M1 MacBook Pro screen repair cost was $809. Supervisor refused the waive the fee. The screen cracked for no apparent reason and then completely stopped working. Some firm already filed a class action complaint, and I submitted my details: https://classlawdc.com/2021/08/04/m1-macbook-screen-crack-in...
So after all the hype that I have heard about the Apple Silicon computers, it seems like it takes a screen crack to make it useless and issue a repair cost of almost the price of a new one. Especially when as soon as the computer fails to boot or stops working, you have lost all data on the computer as the data cannot be recovered. Sounds like a total scam. Glad I never bought one on launch day.
I still don't understand the appeal of aluminum/glass construction. I couldn't think of a worse set of materials to make a laptop out of. For comparison, nearly every other ultrabook manufacturer has moved onto magnesium or carbon fiber for chassis construction. Both materials are much physically stronger, lighter, and (most importantly, imho) offer more intrinsic shock protection. I know people enjoy the "luxury" lo…
Carbon fibre chips and shatters. Metal bends. I really don't see how carbon fibre would be in any way better than what Apple uses right now.
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> And that’s why most people buy $500 laptops. It's also worth pointing out that the $500 laptop will probably last a lot longer than the most expensive Macbook. All plastic, they use a lot of older/reliable technology, they don't get used as rough - the most common failure mode is they get too old/slow for the user.
I’m anecdotally writing this on a 2012 15” rMacBook Pro that aside from some battery replacements just doesn’t want to die… It blows all the “premium” work laptops out of the water.
I love that the older macbooks can be opened up and fixed if needed. I had to replace the HD connector a couple times (and learnt to add some electrical tape to stop the issue), and I recently cleaned the old CPU adhesive off and added some new (old macbooks can start to smell like Body odour!).
With 16GB of RAM the macbook performance is still decent, able to run docker and run modern IDEs.
It's a great machine. The only downside is that you can no longer update to the most recent OS versions.
Apple has always tried to blame customers whenever they can. I remember when my MacBook pro 2015 started glitching and Apple voided the warranty by saying there was liquid spillage/fluid damage. So apparently macbooks have these small stickers inside them which change color upon contact with liquids to help detect liquid damage but the issue with those stickers are that they also change color if you live in a humid a…
Those stickers are in nearly all of their devices.
I still don't understand the appeal of aluminum/glass construction. I couldn't think of a worse set of materials to make a laptop out of. For comparison, nearly every other ultrabook manufacturer has moved onto magnesium or carbon fiber for chassis construction. Both materials are much physically stronger, lighter, and (most importantly, imho) offer more intrinsic shock protection. I know people enjoy the "luxury" lo…
There's an ongoing joke in the military, MIL-SPEC just means it's a piece of crap that's going to break pretty soon. From an engineering point of view, I'd like to believe that using all MIL-SPEC components which are rated to last longer and in harsher environments would amount to a more reliable product. But maybe a product is more than the sum of its parts, and it's possible a company can build a more reliable prod…
I've managed production of a number of "MIL-SPEC" parts over the years. Usually it just meant documentation and traceability.
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That feels like saying "And that's why you pay the Mafia their protection money." These screens are breaking because they're defective, which is what the warranty is supposed to cover. Why should you have to pay Apple more money for them to do what they're already supposed to do?
Warranty lasts 12 months. AppleCare lasts 3 years. Your choice. Dell is the same. IIRC, HP was too. There's nothing to see here.