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throwaway48476 ◴[] No.41850185[source]
It is interesting that one of their examples is a "community repair fair", they want to market a sheen of social responsibility without actually taking part themselves.
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giancarlostoro ◴[] No.41850430[source]
Lowkey wish their laptops would be as they used to be. Being able to swap RAM or hard drives is so basic but so useful.
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talldayo ◴[] No.41852852[source]
Drives in particular. Let them solder the memory if they absolutely have to, but exposing even an empty NVMe slot should be standard for laptops. Unfortunately, Apple makes a pretty penny off the storage surcharge so I wouldn't really anticipate that anytime soon.
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1. AlexandrB ◴[] No.41853315[source]
Even when Apple laptops had removable solid state storage, it used a non-standard connector[1]. Very consumer and repair hostile. While OWC still made thirds party drives for these[2], few (no?) other companies did.

[1] https://beetstech.com/blog/apple-proprietary-ssd-ultimate-gu...

[2] https://www.owc.com/solutions/aura-n2