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Re:One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks by Greek0 on Sunday May 23, 2021 @11:16AM (#27255544)
The repairability Rossmann is talking about is not user-replaceable components. His repairs usually require soldering to replace components.

One of his main critique points is that Apple makes it hard to repair their products, even for electronics professionals. In the past, Apple has also altered designs so that small electrical problems suddenly fry the most expensive component on the board, the CPU. Either this is an embarrassing, junior-level oversight or a deliberate anti-repair-buy-new-hardware tactic.

See, for example, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jahtu1_idVU

As such, it seems you are arguing against an idea that no one is suggesting.

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Re:One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks by vecinu on Sunday May 23, 2021 @10:14PM (#27260501)
> I don't personally have the time to watch a 20-minute video to see what the hell he's talking about,

I personally find your reply in bad faith because both Greek0 and 8bitsrule took the time to find and share the video with you as well as explain the context around it.

That's not even considering the time that Louis Rossman went through to make that "20 minute video" because it takes much longer to film, edit and publish the damn thing.

This is like an extreme form of trolling to derail the conversation, usually it's "please provide a source", which someone did but you hand waved it away with "I don't have time to watch it". It legitimately upset me.

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Re:One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks by 8bitsrule on Sunday May 23, 2021 @07:58PM (#27259754)
I had the time to watch the video. He demonstrates (schematics and images) that a common anti-boneheaded design consideration Apple had adhered to in the past - spacing high-voltage traces away from very-low-voltage traces - disappeared in a more recent model (making it easy for 40+ volts to reach the CPU).

One professional EE would absolutely notice this. So there's no 'maybe' here.

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Re:One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks by Dah00n on Sunday May 23, 2021 @09:55PM (#27260423)
Why do you argue against something you don't want to take the time to understand? It's clear from you comment you didn't watch the video - even if you hadn't said so yourself. If you watch it you might both understand it better and have something interesting to add. I don't get why people comment on articles (and videos) they didn't look at.
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