Unlike Apple who seems to like to solder everything onto the board, such that to fix the SSD would require an entirely new logic board and a trip to the Apple Store.
That alone makes the Surface 4 'look' like a good deal, but at the price of $1000? No thanks and no deal (For now).
In the case of "Courage", Apple branded their decision to remove the headphone jack as "courageous".
"A sense of pride and accomplishment" is from the Battlefront video games, when marketers were talking about some features that either cost hundreds-of-dollars, or literally hundreds of hours of gameplay to unlock.
(Talking about the audio jack change, no idea how making easy-to-maintenance parts is not the safe choice).
Can't comment on whether the decision makers were being courageous or not in any way. Not sure any of us could.
It's just that they're a joke compared to the M1.
I see what you did there: https://www.theverge.com/2016/9/7/12838024/apple-iphone-7-pl...
Is this the same Microsoft whose original Surface Laptop got the lowest repairability score that iFixit has ever given?
>According to iFixit, the Surface Laptop isn’t repairable at all. In fact, it got a 0 out of 10 for repairability and was labeled a “glue-filled monstrosity.” Ouch. That’s never happened before. The lowest scores previously were a 1 out of 10 for all previous iterations of the Surface Pro
https://www.extremetech.com/computing/251046-ifixit-labels-s...
In 2012, 4-5 days after the purchase of my first and last MacBook Air, they gave me a quote that was half the price of the new MBA when a key cap just popped out. I literally was using it and it popped out.
Their reasoning: physical damage + (this is the kicker) in Air there’s no provision to repair the key or key cap, entire lower board/chassis needs to be replaced.
Yes just a key cap! I shouted to customer support. It was replaced. I decided I am not paying for another fruit company laptop. (In their defence they tried to pull this off in a country with pretty much no or no accessible consumer protection)
Was it Apple who told you this? Or a 3rd party service center? A reseller? What country did they try to pull this off in?