15-Inch MacBook Pro Battery Recall Program

Re:15-Inch MacBook Pro Battery Recall Program by LeifCarrotson on Thursday June 20, 2019 @02:40PM (#20235899)

Buy some ThinkPads or zBooks or Latitudes, give those to a subset of your affected users, then send the freed-up units to service. Repeat until all affected units have been serviced.

Then, when the time comes (soon?) to replace the 2015-2017 MBPs, consider whether you'd rather repeat that with future MBPs or buy something different that has on-site same-day service and user-replaceable batteries and other components.

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Re:15-Inch MacBook Pro Battery Recall Program by tomxor on Thursday June 20, 2019 @09:55PM (#20239214)

You should know better than to post that suggestion in a thread full of Apple users with Mac OS lockin ... But don't worry, now my comment will be accompanying yours in the HN downvote afterlife :P

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Re:15-Inch MacBook Pro Battery Recall Program by swendoog on Thursday June 20, 2019 @03:12PM (#20236226)

Unfortunately some work (Mac, and iOS development) requires a Mac OS device.

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Re:15-Inch MacBook Pro Battery Recall Program by otakucode on Thursday June 20, 2019 @06:11PM (#20237907)

And for that, at least in this sort of situation, I'd expect a company to at least temporarily look into the various services that enable you to rent a MacOS device in the cloud for the moments you need it (usually app builds).

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Re:15-Inch MacBook Pro Battery Recall Program by megablast on Thursday June 20, 2019 @07:30PM (#20238495)

And where would you run xcode? The IDE you use to develop.

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