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Re:Apple pays out millions to student after repair techs sha... by basch on Monday June 07, 2021 @12:12PM (#27424232)
>"Keep Your Drive" is now a non-free (but not that expensive) "service upgrade".

It's almost more of a donation in my experience. Don't pay it, remove the disk, no consequence. It's also a good idea to put the OEM ram back in the machine if youve upgraded. One of the few things they may balk at and return it unfixed.

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Re:Apple pays out millions to student after repair techs sha... by kelnos on Monday June 07, 2021 @01:38PM (#27425476)
In the case where you're sending it in for a repair under warranty, I imagine for some classes of problems the manufacturer could refuse warranty service if you've removed the drive, especially since most designs now make it really easy to accidentally damage something while doing that.
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Re:Apple pays out millions to student after repair techs sha... by syshum on Monday June 07, 2021 @01:59PM (#27425805)
In the US they would have to prove your removal of the drive is what caused the damage,

I am not sure how it easy to damage something when removing a NVMe drive, it is trivial to remove the drive and should not even come close to damaging anything

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Re:Apple pays out millions to student after repair techs sha... by michaelhoffman on Monday June 07, 2021 @12:42PM (#27424683)
Put the OEM RAM back? Hard to do otherwise when it's soldered to the laptop.
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Re:Apple pays out millions to student after repair techs sha... by ziml77 on Monday June 07, 2021 @12:45PM (#27424721)
Well then you also couldn't have upgraded it which was a condition he specified for putting the OEM RAM back.
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Re:Apple pays out millions to student after repair techs sha... by Dylan16807 on Monday June 07, 2021 @01:45PM (#27425602)
Clearly. But it's a complaint along similar lines of laptops being harder to work on.
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