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Want to fix the Retina Display MacBook Pro yourself? Forget it, you can't
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article published on 13 June, 2012
The news comes via popular DIY tech site iFixit.
iFixit was able to get their hands on the new MacBook Pro with Retina Display and has some bad news for eager Mac fans.
The site took the notebook apart and gave it the worst repair score possible, a heinous 1 out of 10.
"This is, to date, the least-repairable laptop we've taken apart," added Kyle Wiens, CEO of iFixit. "Apple has ... [ read the full article ]
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Morreale
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14. June 2012 @ 00:13 |
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I really hope people realize this before purchasing... Pretty ridiculous.
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mukhis
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14. June 2012 @ 00:21 |
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Originally posted by Morreale:
I really hope people realize this before purchasing... Pretty ridiculous.
better option:
# don't purchase
or,
# if you do, you must buy applecare plan, otherwise, you are screwed if something happens.
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14. June 2012 @ 00:56 |
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I hope all the Apple fans buy one...sounds like exactly what they deserve for supporting this terrible company.
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Mr_Bill06
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14. June 2012 @ 01:30 |
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All I can think is LOL. Not like it matters, most of the people who buy Apple buy there stuff religiously. They don't mind flushing several thousands down the shitter for the great Apple. To the people with the argument that you pay for what you get, enjoy when in a few years if the SSD starts to fail have fun throwing away your $2k Mac book over a $100 fix. That Apple I am sure will charge you out the ass to fix.
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elbald90
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14. June 2012 @ 01:37 |
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Originally posted by KillerBug:
I hope all the Apple fans buy one...sounds like exactly what they deserve for supporting this terrible company.
couldnt agree more
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14. June 2012 @ 02:21 |
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Maybe Apple finally realized that all of their customers are so technologically inept that they don't have any concern for fixing things themselves, or upgrading RAM for that matter. Everyone I know who owns a Mac most likely wouldn't be able to tell the difference between a laptop with 4GB of RAM vs 16GB of RAM.
Also, using glued in batteries may have something to do with trying to fit in another battery. So they don't need to worry about clips and such. Either way, this will be just another one of Apple's shiny, expensive jails.
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iamgq
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14. June 2012 @ 04:02 |
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Just wondering, if you guys got this computer for free (won it it whatever), would you really be in a rush to upgrade it? replace the screen or anything off it?
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14. June 2012 @ 04:34 |
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Originally posted by iamgq:
Just wondering, if you guys got this computer for free (won it it whatever), would you really be in a rush to upgrade it? replace the screen or anything off it?
No, wouldn't upgrade it. Would sell it to an CrApple-sheeple, make a nice profit and with half the money buy a real computer, with total control over it.
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iamgq
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14. June 2012 @ 04:50 |
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Originally posted by cyprusrom:
Originally posted by iamgq:
Just wondering, if you guys got this computer for free (won it it whatever), would you really be in a rush to upgrade it? replace the screen or anything off it?
No, wouldn't upgrade it. Would sell it to an CrApple-sheeple, make a nice profit and with half the money buy a real computer, with total control over it.
Ok fair enough, please tell me were I can go buy a real computer? fill me in with the specs and all. Id like a real computer for once.
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14. June 2012 @ 06:24 |
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Come on, folks, this is "intelligent design". People dumb enough to purchase a $3K-4K laptop with one year warranty will be dumb enough to buy the next one if it stops working after the warranty expiration date.
"You know, it seems that quotes on the internet are becoming less and less reliable." -Abraham Lincoln.
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iamgq
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14. June 2012 @ 06:31 |
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Originally posted by dali:
Come on, folks, this is "intelligent design". People dumb enough to purchase a $3K-4K laptop with one year warranty will be dumb enough to buy the next one if it stops working after the warranty expiration date.
or 3 years plan for 250 more. do you drive with car insurance?
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14. June 2012 @ 06:52 |
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Originally posted by iamgq:
or 3 years plan for 250 more. do you drive with car insurance?
That's even more intelligent, indeed. Make it impossible to refuse a warranty extension which is also sold by you.
"You know, it seems that quotes on the internet are becoming less and less reliable." -Abraham Lincoln.
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iamgq
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14. June 2012 @ 07:12 |
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Originally posted by dali:
Originally posted by iamgq:
or 3 years plan for 250 more. do you drive with car insurance?
That's even more intelligent, indeed. Make it impossible to refuse a warranty extension which is also sold by you.
Sooo, what kind of computer you own?
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14. June 2012 @ 08:28 |
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Originally posted by iamgq:
Sooo, what kind of computer you own?
PC. You won't see anything with an apple logo around me. You see, maybe I'm not as intelligent as Crapple marketing people are, yet much more than their customers I am.
"You know, it seems that quotes on the internet are becoming less and less reliable." -Abraham Lincoln.
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14. June 2012 @ 10:29 |
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Originally posted by Notcow:
Maybe Apple finally realized that all of their customers are so technologically inept that they don't have any concern for fixing things themselves, or upgrading RAM for that matter. Everyone I know who owns a Mac most likely wouldn't be able to tell the difference between a laptop with 4GB of RAM vs 16GB of RAM.
Did you notice in the latest "SHERLOCK" series that Holmes uses all Apple products?
Sherlock is a lot smatter then you are.
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14. June 2012 @ 10:33 |
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One more thing.
Can you say "Retina display envy"?
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salsa36
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14. June 2012 @ 10:46 |
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Really? how many times do you have to fix an apple computer?
I have 3 Macbook Pro and I've never had a problem (one of them is 5 years old).
Think about it. What would you do if those were your products, would you want people to do stuff by themselves or get some extra income? It not personal just business...
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Ben79
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14. June 2012 @ 10:50 |
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Quote:
"It's critical that consumers have the option to repair things that go wrong, as well as upgrade their own hardware to keep it relevant as new technologies roll out."
Apple does allow you buy a new $3800 laptop any time you want to keep up with relevant technology. Just don't touch their hardware in your laptop, and you will get along fine. It's all part of the "Apple Experience".
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14. June 2012 @ 11:04 |
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Wow this damn thread has turned into a fanboy fiasco. Let me throw in my two cents.
In my household, I own a 27" iMac, MacBook Pro 13" and family members own an iPod Touch and iPhone 4S and almost every iPod made.
I love the Macs. I'm in college now and I want something that's not going to take up my time with me tinkering around with it. The Mac does just that. Power it on, use it for schoolwork, power it off. There's a hell of a lot of little details that just piss the hell out of me about OS X but it's nothing to cry about. Hell, if this was when I was still in high school, I'd say screw Apple and I'd use a PC 100% of the time.
The big advantage I see about Macs is the fact they can run OS X and Windows. Of couse, some laptops can do that but it's usually a pain and you don't know what update will kill it. The 27" iMac has a phenomenal display. The resolution is outstanding and the clarity is lifelike. Dell came out with an XPS that's identical to the iMac but more powerful. If buying new, I'd buy the Dell. It's more powerful and I believe several hundred dollars cheaper.
The iPhones/iPod touch is a waste of time. I owned the iPod touch before I had a smartphone. Finally got my Droid and every time I look at the iPod/iPhone I wonder how people can use these things. They do sh*t compared to my Android. If I got an iPhone/iPod Touch for free, it'd be on Ebay within the day.
iPods, they were good while they lasted. My iPod Classic is still the best portable music player around in my opinion. All the iPods were great except the Shuffles and a few Nano's here and there but for the most part, I like them.
Now, NONE of these Apple products were bought from an Apple store. If anything, I bought them used from people who didn't realize it had warranty and got it repaired through Apple. I'll never go out and support Apple directly. My 27" 2011 iMac cost me $1025 with a 2TB HD, i7, and 8GB RAM. I'd probably spend $1200 max on it. My 2009 MBP cost me $350 with a C2D, 4GB RAM, 80GB HDD. I'd probably spend $700 tops on that (back in 2009).
Now about this Mac, the display is phenomenal. Is it worth it, hell no. Is the laptop worth it? Hell no. The fact that nothing is upgradable pisses off everybody who's had a PC but think about it from Apple's standpoint. Almost everybody who buy's a Mac doesn't know much about hardware. They're not going to be cracking the computer open to replace the hard drive or RAM, they want a fast machine and Apple achieved that. SSD's going to be blazing fast. On board RAM saves space. No optical drive, well I guess no movies but not that big of a deal. I barely use my optical drive. The way I look at it, this is a desktop replacement for Apple fanboys and thankfully Apple didn't pull another Dell Inspiron 9100.
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14. June 2012 @ 11:06 |
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Originally posted by Ben79:
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Apple does allow you buy a new $3800 laptop any time you want to keep up with relevant technology. Just don't touch their hardware in your laptop, and you will get along fine. It's all part of the "Apple Experience".
Have you ever owned, operated, opened, changed a component, upgraded the RAM, or preformed maintenance on any Mac computers?
I don't think so.
The less these guys know the more they criticize .
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14. June 2012 @ 11:08 |
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Originally posted by robertmro:
Originally posted by Ben79:
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Apple does allow you buy a new $3800 laptop any time you want to keep up with relevant technology. Just don't touch their hardware in your laptop, and you will get along fine. It's all part of the "Apple Experience".
Have you ever owned, operated, opened, changed a component, upgraded the RAM, or preformed maintenance on any Mac computers?
I don't think so.
The less these guys know the more they criticize .
All Macs I've come by I've upgraded. Laptops are of course more restrictive than desktops but they're upgradable. The only nazi move Apple did was the hard drive issue in the 2011 iMacs. That was unnecessary.
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14. June 2012 @ 11:23 |
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This is one ugly machine.
Does Dell know what an industrial designer is?
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14. June 2012 @ 11:30 |
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Laptops are of course more restrictive than desktops but they're upgradable.
Six screws on recent models.
That's really difficult for a genius.
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14. June 2012 @ 11:43 |
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As an Apple tech for my school department I love this when it breaks no more working on it in house pack it up in a box (will have to order a lot of them)and send it off to the state for repairs // at a 100.00 per hour let them fix it. this will free up all sorts of time for me to play a game on my ps3 instead of losing sleep on what to do and how to fix it... love the new ideas ... to bad for the Mac fan boys they will have to pay someone like me once the warranty runs out ... money in the bank
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14. June 2012 @ 11:51 |
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Originally posted by salsa36:
Really? how many times do you have to fix an apple computer?
I have 3 Macbook Pro and I've never had a problem (one of them is 5 years old).
Think about it. What would you do if those were your products, would you want people to do stuff by themselves or get some extra income? It not personal just business...
Really? Don't you know Apple does *NOT* produce *ANY* of the components inside their "products"? Don't you know that the *SAME* memory, processor, SSD, etc. can be found on a laptop which costs 10% of the price?
BTW, I have a Linux box acting as a router which has never been shut down in 18 years but for power surges or upgrades, a couple of HP ML110 servers 10 years old each, a desktop computer which is 10 years old, the same smartphone for the last 3 years... All of them surviving in good health because I don't knock about them in a regular basis (most fanboys are more concerned about their crapple gadgets than their own lives) and, yes, I could upgrade them without desoldering or removing glue from anything.
"You know, it seems that quotes on the internet are becoming less and less reliable." -Abraham Lincoln.
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