The new MacBook Neo is the most repairable MacBook we’ve seen in 14 years.

[ambulocetus@mefi.social]

@iFixit It sounds too good to be true. What's the "catch"?

[jhooper@techhub.social]

@iFixit it would be nice if the Switch 2 console was as easy to repair.

[10tothe22@mastodon.social]

@Ambulocetus @iFixit There isn’t a catch. Apple filling out the price/value slots. This is a low risk attempt at growth in the low-cost laptop market. Honestly, they may knock it out of the park. I mean every school and school kid. Retail even.

[makelog@mastodon.social]

@iFixit I am wondering if the increased repairability is due to Apple being good and sustainable or laws that enforce this.

I guess the latter is the case.

[cleopatro@emilcar.social]

@iFixit @Barredo Es muy buena noticia

[tubrofan211@mastodon.social]

@iFixit Oh! So Apple CAN let us repair their computers. Interesting.

[fenrasulfr@mastodon.social]

@tubrofan211 @iFixit Do not get a head of yourself. First you need to become an Apple Cetrified Technicien. Us mere mortals are too incapable to work on Apple devices.

At the very least it is nice to see that manufacturers have been lying through their teeth about repairability.

[csolisr@hub.azkware.net]

Arguably, the catch is that the RAM caps at 8 GB, but that's due to the architecture of the device. (I wonder how much can it rely on swapfiles to compensate...)

[jbowen@mast.hpc.social]

@Fenrasulfr @tubrofan211 @iFixit
"most repairable macbook" is a very, very low bar.

[jbowen@mast.hpc.social]

@rogueren @iFixit
What does it need to "calibrate?"

[fenrasulfr@mastodon.social]

@jbowen @tubrofan211 @iFixit Maybe but it shows that the company famous for being creating extremely difficult to repair devices with software locks just showed that they ar pefectly capable of making fully repairable devices.

[ahltorp@mastodon.nu]

@Fenrasulfr @jbowen @tubrofan211 @iFixit You do know that they have had laptops with even hot-swappable batteries, special easy-access hatches for memory, easily replaceable hard drives with decent repair manuals, etc? It’s mostly their recent stuff that has been soldered down and glued.

[fenrasulfr@mastodon.social]

@ahltorp @jbowen @tubrofan211 @iFixit Yes I know Apple and many other manufactures were perfectly repairable. It was also Apple that popularised non repairable designs.

[phillipplays@retro-gaiden.com]

@iFixit Good news! Working on laptops is such a bitch, but I'm glad we at least can if we need to

[ahltorp@mastodon.nu]

@Fenrasulfr Laptops were not ”perfectly repairable” in the ’90s.

[fenrasulfr@mastodon.social]

@ahltorp You get what I mean, compared to today, you could "easily" open up laptops and get repair parts for them. Some allowed you to upgrade components long befor Framework was a thing. So please stop being so pedantic.