Re:One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks
by vultour on Sunday May 23, 2021 @03:47PM
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From the videos I’ve seen there are very few where he doesn’t come off as insufferable. My favourite one is when he starts trashing the Genius Bar for not being able to diagnose an issue with a specific component on the motherboard like he does, and instead they recommend replacing the whole board. I don’t think Dell/HP/Lenovo support is going to bother inspecting a mobo with a microscope and checking voltage levels either.
Re:One man’s fight for the right to repair broken MacBooks
by theshrike79 on Monday May 24, 2021 @01:04AM
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Yea, he seems to be willfully oblivious to the fact that it's not in any way feasible to have every Apple Store staffed with people who have the skills to reflow surface mount components and debug issues with oscilloscopes.
It's orders of magnitude easier to just swap whole boards and ship the broken ones to a central place to be either recycled or repaired.
He had a video where he was trashing a new MacBook. The largest reason why he liked his current Lenovo over the MacBook was the Lenovo's battery bump.
He used the battery bump as a handle when editing videos standing up on the subway. Oof.
The sleek MacBook didn't have a convenient handle in the back for him to do his stand-up video editing, thus it was a piece of shit.