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Re:New MacBook Pro has first ‘DIY-friendly’ battery replacem... by JohnBooty on Wednesday October 27, 2021 @09:47PM (#29021381) 

    That being said, I just can't believe he would 
    have been happy about the various issues 
    with the old MacBooks. So many things feel so 
    wrong
It's an interesting question for sure.

During his life, he certainly did champion a lot of form-over-function decisions: the "cube" G4, the hockey puck mouse on the iMacs, etc.

And then he also championed some similar decisions that most people regard as roaring successes: the removal of legacy ports on the MacBooks felt an awful lot like the decision to ditch legacy ports on the original iMacs.

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Re:New MacBook Pro has first ‘DIY-friendly’ battery replacem... by b3morales on Thursday October 28, 2021 @12:52PM (#29028193)
> the removal of legacy ports on the MacBooks felt an awful lot like the decision to ditch legacy ports on the original iMacs

Sort of, but this disregards some important product context. Having a multi-port dongle or adapters on a desktop machine is a very different experience than a portable.

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