Meanwhile, my ancient Thinkpad T500 I owned before the MBA is alive and kicking, and when its battery gave out after three years, I could just order another battery to replace it with. On my MBA, everything is glued together, so I have to pay a couple of hundreds for a 1st og 3rd party shop to replace it instead - with no guarantee what the end result will be.
The future really sucks this way, especially since it’s not a secret that batteries do worse over time - it’s in the friggin’ manuals for Apple’s devices.
Apple’s products are a lot more affordable than they used to, when we criticized them for being for the rich, but now they seem to expect us to replace our products far more frequently than we used to.
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On a lighter note, the remote for my Pioneer remote broke, and I literally can’t adjust some of my speaker settings without it, and Pioneer have taken weeks to respond to my query. It’d be ridiculous if I had to get a new sound system, and surely losing a remote isn’t some obscure scenario to these people.