Re:Business Essentials
by rbanffy on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @11:08AM
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Watching the Apple employee come to the office to repair a glued together MacBook Pro can have an extremely high entertainment value.
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Re:Business Essentials
by kube-system on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @11:24AM
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> Onsite repairs apply only to some iPhone models and are subject to availability in specific cities.
Re:Business Essentials
by _fat_santa on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @11:38AM
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I wonder if it will be an actual "repair", or will they just come and give you a refurbished iPhone and transfer all your data to it.
The newer MacBooks have easy repairable battery and connectors.
True but how often is the battery the issue in an enterprise environment? In my experience devices are seldom in circulation long enough that they require a battery swap.
Port damage and clumsy or messy employees are far more likely to cause issues.
Re:Business Essentials
by mschuster91 on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @12:00PM
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> In my experience devices are seldom in circulation long enough that they require a battery swap.
MacBooks can easily last four to six years in a corporate environment - and heavy load on the battery drastically impact it in two years.
In my experience the battery was the issue for most MacBook users.
>True but how often is the battery the issue in an enterprise environment?
Biggest issue by far. We have a fleet of 100+ MacBooks in my office and expanded batteries are probably the only thing we have that goes wrong with them. They're rock solid otherwise. The new replaceable batteries is a huge deal.
Your parent commenter mentioned connector as well. What else couldn't be repaired on-site that could be repaired off-site? I'm pretty sure anything that for anything that couldn't be repaired on-site they're just going to replace the whole computer.
Easy is probably an overstatement. iFixit describes it as:
> Battery replacements are reasonably well prioritized, if not exactly easy.
Overall it gets a 4 out of 10 [1]
[1] https://www.ifixit.com/News/54122/macbook-pro-2021-teardown