No surprises here. Just like the lockdown on iPhone screen and part replacements, Macbooks suffer from the same Apple’s anti-repair and anti-consumer bullshit. Battery glued, ssd soldered in and can’t even swap parts with other official parts. 6000$ laptop and you don’t even own it.

  • @miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
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    31 year ago

    It just blows that everything Apple sells can only barely be repaired or upgraded, if at all.

    I can replace pretty much any part of my current laptop fairly easily, and I’d love to have something like that again.

    • @Prandom_returns@lemm.ee
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      11 year ago

      I don’t use Apple products, simply because of their crappy ethics and questionable product design. But that means I suffer in my day-to-day work-life thing. That, and I need a good GPU for rendering.

      Still, I’d ‘hackintosh’ everything and anything just because of color-management. :'(

      • @miss_brainfart@lemmy.ml
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        11 year ago

        Was it Framework who sells nicely repairable devices? Maybe I’ll see if they have reasonably good screens, and use Adobe through a Windows VM. I’d prefer that over bare metal anyway.

        I would hope that if I ever need a truly high end display, it’s going to be an employer who pays for it. One can hope.

        • @Prandom_returns@lemm.ee
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          11 year ago

          Frameworks are very nice, but I’m waiting for them to crystalize a bit.

          I would hope that if I ever need a truly high end display, it’s going to be an employer who pays for it. One can hope.

          That still is a problem on both Windows and Linux. No matter what gamut your screen is, if the OS just sends nonsense to it, it’s just a colorful bestbuy “TV”.

          While Adobe products use their own color-management, you’ll meet many problems in your day creative project management. And guess what, it’s always your fault!