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Comment by rbanffy | Hacker News Reader

Watching the Apple employee come to the office to repair a glued together MacBook Pro can have an extremely high entertainment value.

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> Onsite repairs apply only to some iPhone models and are subject to availability in specific cities.

I wonder if it will be an actual "repair", or will they just come and give you a refurbished iPhone and transfer all your data to it.

The newer MacBooks have easy repairable battery and connectors.

I was being facetious.

True but how often is the battery the issue in an enterprise environment? In my experience devices are seldom in circulation long enough that they require a battery swap.

Port damage and clumsy or messy employees are far more likely to cause issues.

In my experience the battery was the issue for most MacBook users.

> In my experience devices are seldom in circulation long enough that they require a battery swap.

MacBooks can easily last four to six years in a corporate environment - and heavy load on the battery drastically impact it in two years.

Your parent commenter mentioned connector as well. What else couldn't be repaired on-site that could be repaired off-site? I'm pretty sure anything that for anything that couldn't be repaired on-site they're just going to replace the whole computer.

>True but how often is the battery the issue in an enterprise environment?

Biggest issue by far. We have a fleet of 100+ MacBooks in my office and expanded batteries are probably the only thing we have that goes wrong with them. They're rock solid otherwise. The new replaceable batteries is a huge deal.

Easy is probably an overstatement. iFixit describes it as:

> Battery replacements are reasonably well prioritized, if not exactly easy.

Overall it gets a 4 out of 10 [1]

[1] https://www.ifixit.com/News/54122/macbook-pro-2021-teardown

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