Re:16-inch MacBook Pro
by l33tman on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @06:45PM
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Just get a time machine, put on your wifi and you don't have to think about it anymore, it will just backup every day in the background. You can easily restore into another macbook using the builtin restore functionality. Apples solution to this is really good (still struggling to do it with the same ease with Windows without 3rd party software and Linux).
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> restore into another macbook
That's the problem. Instead of replacing a $200 SSD, you have to replace the entire $2000 machine.
Re:16-inch MacBook Pro
by birdyrooster on Wednesday November 13, 2019 @11:03PM
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Just preheat the board, get your hot air station, heat and remove those bad modules, clean the pads, add your solder and remount some new ones before cleaning up all that flux you were using. Then reinstall macOS and restore your backups.
It might take a few tries before the solder balls up correctly under each pad. Use plenty of flux. Maybe give it a ultrasonic bath.
Source: YouTube
Ah yes, Apple is known for making things obvious, intuitive, easy, and user-friendly! /s
Having an actual mini-sata or m.2 connector won't be too taxing. But it will increase tech support costs, and lower profits from sales of new replacement machines at least.
Sad. (That's why my choice is Thinkpad T series, which is built like a tank: heavy, bulky, easy to replace any part, and hard to actually break; also, enough room for a good keyboard.)
T (and X) series solders some stuff now too. Dell XPS15 and X1 Extreme are mostly maintainable.
Re:16-inch MacBook Pro
by gargravarr on Friday November 15, 2019 @12:37PM
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Even the XPS 13s are more serviceable than their rival MBP 13"s. The RAM may be soldered on both but the XPS uses a standard NVMe SSD. It's saved me a few times already.
Re:16-inch MacBook Pro
by chaostheory on Thursday November 14, 2019 @08:58AM
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I can’t tell if you’re being sarcastic or serious
Re:16-inch MacBook Pro
by birdyrooster on Friday November 15, 2019 @02:17PM
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Yes.
If you have AppleCare you won’t have to pay for that replacement. After 3 years, you would, however buying a laptop with an inferior OS just in case one day a machine catastrophically fails is like riding a horse because you are afraid your car might fly off a bridge at some point in the future.
I know I am anecdote-land, but I have never in 20 years of using Macs, had one catastrophically fail. Or fail at all for that matter.
Re:16-inch MacBook Pro
by hardlianotion on Thursday November 14, 2019 @01:56AM
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Fair enough, but I have had one in the last 7 years, and so has my sister. Hard drives in both cases.
Re:16-inch MacBook Pro
by SpelingBeeChamp on Friday November 15, 2019 @01:37AM
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HDD or SSD?
Re:16-inch MacBook Pro
by redwall_hp on Thursday November 14, 2019 @01:29AM
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Apple discontinued Time Capsule and their entire Airport line. The Time Machine software is still in MacOS, but de-emphasized and who knows if they'll retain it going forward.
Doesn’t it ask you whenever you plug in an empty hard disk if you want to use it as a Time Machine backup drive?
In what way has it been de-emphasized?