Re:Business Essentials
by hda111 on Wednesday November 10, 2021 @11:17AM
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The newer MacBooks have easy repairable battery and connectors.
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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