Repairability
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Repairability
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#2This is a great read about repairability, and we should also not forget that apple are the worst when it comes to repair. They essentially said “Our Manuals Could Make Repairs Safer, But You Can’t Have Them” (source here: https://www.ifixit.com/News/33977/apple-told-congress-how-re... )
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#3The more I read about Apple products the more they seem to be apt as luxury goods rather than functional computing devices.
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#4Not that it's a justification, per se, but a lot of modern laptops won't boot without a battery. The power adapter often can't provide sufficient power to spin everything up at boot, and needs the battery as a buffer (this is why, if you run your macbook battery completely flat, it needs to charge for a few minutes before it can boot back up).
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#5Not that it's a justification, per se, but a lot of modern laptops won't boot without a battery. The power adapter often can't provide sufficient power to spin everything up at boot, and needs the battery as a buffer (this is why, if you run your macbook battery completely flat, it needs to charge for a few minutes before it can boot back up).
That sounds like a load of bollocks. A laptop, really?. Wish someone on HN can enlighten me.
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#6“ Thankfully Apple is not yet making cars, otherwise, to change Engine oil, we may have to dissasemble the headlamps, engine, transmission, differential, etc. ”
Interestingly changing the oil in a lot of prissy super cars require exactly this.
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#7Never had a bulky battery in any Mac. Must be something about the climate ...
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#8Not that it's a justification, per se, but a lot of modern laptops won't boot without a battery. The power adapter often can't provide sufficient power to spin everything up at boot, and needs the battery as a buffer (this is why, if you run your macbook battery completely flat, it needs to charge for a few minutes before it can boot back up).
Why are laptops being sold with insufficient power adapters then? That also sounds just flat wrong. Most non-gaming laptops have power supplies with significantly higher outputs than their maximum power draw, and the boot-up surge is incredibly tiny. I would be flatly amazed if a MacBook boot up power draw was even 10% higher than system power draw under maximum load.
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#9Never had a bulky battery in any Mac. Must be something about the climate ...
I have - three times (if an iPad counts). This in cold non-polluted danish climate.
You can’t blame it on the climate just because you have never experienced it.
NB.: How many mac’s are your statistic based upon < 100? I think we need the big numbers...
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#10Not that it's a justification, per se, but a lot of modern laptops won't boot without a battery. The power adapter often can't provide sufficient power to spin everything up at boot, and needs the battery as a buffer (this is why, if you run your macbook battery completely flat, it needs to charge for a few minutes before it can boot back up).
Why are laptops being sold with insufficient power adapters then? That also sounds just flat wrong. Most non-gaming laptops have power supplies with significantly higher outputs than their maximum power draw, and the boot-up surge is incredibly tiny. I would be flatly amazed if a MacBook boot up power draw was even 10% higher than system power draw under maximum load.
It’s cheaper - more profit for the OEM. And booting without battery is likely considered a corner case, thus $$$