Re:Macbook charger teardown: surprising complexity inside Ap...
by rasz_pl on Wednesday November 25, 2015 @08:15PM
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>Otherwise, Apple makes ridiculously durable products
No they dont. Keyboards are another example of design for fail, not to mention they are unfixable (40? rivets, glued together?).
The way they design laptop pcbs encourages common failures, like fragile thin critical connections (charging/one wire circuit) near the open edge of the case resulting in very common water damage destroying ONE trace/via and killing whole laptop. apple will charge you $750 for new logic board at this point.
Apple thermal design was abysmal until very recently, situation got better only thanks to Intel delivering cooler parts, not by Apple improving own products. Core2 macbook with Nvidia? 99% cooked to death. Vent holes are sacrilege, just like first Mac 128K had no fan.
No they dont. Keyboards are another example of design for fail, not to mention they are unfixable (40? rivets, glued together?).
The way they design laptop pcbs encourages common failures, like fragile thin critical connections (charging/one wire circuit) near the open edge of the case resulting in very common water damage destroying ONE trace/via and killing whole laptop. apple will charge you $750 for new logic board at this point.
Apple thermal design was abysmal until very recently, situation got better only thanks to Intel delivering cooler parts, not by Apple improving own products. Core2 macbook with Nvidia? 99% cooked to death. Vent holes are sacrilege, just like first Mac 128K had no fan.
You want to know how bad apple designs laptops? visit https://www.youtube.com/user/rossmanngroup