MacBook Pro: Unfixable?

[alphacat]

Too many embedded links to repaste here, but interesting nonetheless.

http://www.wired.com/gadgetlab/2012/06/ ... ina-displa

[Pedro Sánchez]

That is the apple model now it seems, I had an older model with a battery that suicided after an OS update, was fine up until that point, then once I upgraded the OS it wouldn't keep it's charge, I brought it in the apple store and was told I needed 'apple care' for them to replace it for free or they wanted £79 for a new battery, I know it was firmware set to fuck up the battery purposely because around the time they tried similar shit to block un-licensed companies selling iPhone chargers by where a set voltage pulse was needed to hand-shake between the battery and charger before it would charge and if it didn't the battery could be fried.

[kidshuffle]

That is the apple model now it seems, I had an older model with a battery that suicided after an OS update, was fine up until that point, then once I upgraded the OS it wouldn't keep it's charge, I brought it in the apple store and was told I needed 'apple care' for them to replace it for free or they wanted £79 for a new battery, I know it was firmware set to fuck up the battery purposely because around the time they tried similar shit to block un-licensed companies selling iPhone chargers by where a set voltage pulse was needed to hand-shake between the battery and charger before it would charge and if it didn't the battery could be fried.

apple batteries suck

[kidshuffle]

thats pretty fucked up though; soldering your RAM to your logic board is a dick move

[jrisreal]

So if anything goes wrong, the user has to buy an entirely new laptop...yeah, Apple...that great (mediocre) tech company bent on world domination.

[NilsFG]

Apple is not the first company to do dick moves like that, they just get all the shit because, well, because they are Apple.

[alphacat]

And if you're gonna be a dick, you best go big wif it. Put some swagger in yr dickness.

[collige]

I think it's a really wierd move to decide to make the MBPs the same way that they make the Airs. I'm not really sure who they're trying to market it too. I would be upset if the older versions stopped getting made, but thankfully the problem only applies to the Retina version.

[sigbowls]

i wish i knew about this a long time ago
when my mac book pro gets old

[NilsFG]

I think it's a really wierd move to decide to make the MBPs the same way that they make the Airs. I'm not really sure who they're trying to market it too. I would be upset if the older versions stopped getting made, but thankfully the problem only applies to the Retina version.

I think the main target audience for the MBP Retina, except for the "oh it's so pretty"-people, would be photographers and other visual professionals (to give them a name) that are on the road quite often.
It's totally not heavy, got a good screen, enough processing power and performance is better because of the SSD which comes in very handy if you're working with large RAW pictures or movie clips.

I can see my dad buying one for those reasons.

[NilsFG]

Also this: http://ifixit.org/2763/the-new-macbook- ... untenable/

Today, we choose. If we choose the retina display over the existing MacBook Pro, the next generation of Mac laptops will likely be less repairable still. When that happens, we won’t be able to blame Apple. We’ll have to blame ourselves. They gave us the choice.

[Blenky]

Dell soldered their ram in on the xps 13 as well. I think it will become a problem not just with apple in the near future but with all manufacturers making ultrabooks to get them as slim as possible.

[NilsFG]

Dell soldered their ram in on the xps 13 as well. I think it will become a problem not just with apple in the near future but with all manufacturers making ultrabooks to get them as slim as possible.

This really. You win some you lose some.

[jrisreal]

Hopefully certain good tech brands will retain sanity and sell quality products over small products.

[AxeD]

Absolutely not unfixable, you just won't be able to fix it and keep it in the original housing

[sigbowls]

mac book pro in a arcade machine

[Shum]

it seems that this only applies to the Retina models?

[Blenky]

Hopefully certain good tech brands will retain sanity and sell quality products over small products.

Can't see it happening but I too am hoping this trend passes, I'm in the market for a laptop for uni at the moment, but can't get the marriage of performance, storage and portability atm. It's either High performance, high portability ultrabooks, high capacity but low performance laptops or high capacity high performance 17" behemoths that would break my arms. Holding out hope the Dell XPS 15 that's due for release end of this week/next week is as good as the leaked specs look.

[NilsFG]

Dell laptops are solid. They can be a bit more pricey than the competitors for roughly the same specs, but the build quality on them is superior in a lot of cases.
Watch out though because some of them weigh a ton. The one I have atm is 17" and weighs a staggering 3.6kgs, which is way too much to take with me every day to uni.
Can't really complain though because I got it for free.

Also avoid Acer at all costs.

[AxeD]

Well if we're talking build quality I would definitely not pass on a macbook that easily.
This thing is pretty slick and it definitely feels solid.

I've got a 13'' now, don't know why I ever bought a 15'' though