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A comment on Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors. Parent comment

Re:Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors by jrockway on Monday October 18, 2021 @03:47PM (#28910642)
> Or what if you're a klutz and spill your grape juice glass over your keyboard? Congrats, now you're -$2000 lighter since there's no way to take it apart and clean the sticky mess inside.

Thanks to the Right To Repair, you can take the laptop to pretty much any repair shop and they can replace anything you damaged with OEM or third-party parts. They even have schematics, so they can just desolder and resolder failed chips. In the past, this sort of thing would be a logic board swap for $1000 at the very least, but now it's just $30 + labor.

Oh, there is no right to repair. So I guess give Apple $2000 again and don't drink liquids at work.

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Re:Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors by google234123 on Monday October 18, 2021 @11:31PM (#28914574)
Removable ram wouldn't change anything in your story presuming the entire board is fried. Anyway, $30 + labor is a deceitful way to put it. The labor in your story would be 100s an hour and would probably fail to actually fix the issue most of the time.
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Re:Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors by ChuckNorris89 on Monday October 18, 2021 @03:57PM (#28910771)
Not gonna lie, you had me in the first half.
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Re:Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors by amelius on Monday October 18, 2021 @05:00PM (#28911659)
> and don't drink liquids at work.

Which is ironic given that Apple laptops are often depicted next to freshly brewed cafe lattes.

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Re:Apple’s new M1 Pro and M1 Max processors by exikyut on Monday October 18, 2021 @10:27PM (#28914221)
Perhaps this is the real reason behind the "crack design team" jokes? A wholesale internal switchover from liquid-based stimulants after one too many accidents?

/s

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