It's impossible to do self repairs on macbooks these days.
Apple intentionally solders all the components together to prevent self repair. Even the battery is soldered to the system.
https://9to5mac.com/2019/07/12/2019-13-macbook-pro-teardown/
Apple intentionally solders all the components together to prevent self repair. Even the battery is soldered to the system.
https://9to5mac.com/2019/07/12/2019-13-macbook-pro-teardown/
Do Yourself It?
There is a youtuber named Louis Rossman(1.7 million followers) fighting Apple on this since more than a decade.
Here is his channel: https://youtube.com/user/rossmanngroup
(i) Is Apple anti right to repair?
(ii) Does Apple solder certain components primarily because it makes repair more difficult?
Even if the answer to (i) is yes, the answer to (ii) can be no.
Most unpluggable components in most laptops are never intentionally unplugged over the lifetime of the device. Connectors take up space, can come unplugged accidentally, and degrade signal quality. Those are the reasons for soldering components in a modern laptop.
The issue is if you let individuals and 3rd party stores do repairs, there is no way to validate that they are doing it in a reliable/quality fashion. This is especially problematic when phones are getting more and more resilient to various environments (Like the addition of IP68)
When a customer has a repair done poorly and issues come up, they come to Apple for support.
Original video is mirrored on archive.org https://archive.org/details/Kat.crlouis.rossmann.backup/what...
Not sure if that link goes straight to the right video. It’s the last video of the playlist, titled “what’s up with that 4 gb man”
As much as I like to bash Apple, it could also be that they soldered/glued everything to miniaturize the product further, for example.