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Comment by samatman | Hacker News Reader

Is there some detail of the hardware in current MacBooks where you can justify calling them rubbish?

I'm happy calling the butterfly keys rubbish: they were. But now? What?

Try one of the following on your Macbook: - replace a battery - upgrade the memory or SSD/NVME - get your data off a Macbook whose motherboard has died

In other words, do any of the common repairs. To spend top dollar for a laptop and not be able to do repairs is rubbish: intentional planned obsolescence and vendor lock-in IMO.

That has nothing to do with hardware quality.

Can you answer without moving the goal posts?

Of course they can't.

The narcissistic tendency to conflate consumer preference with quality (or moral weight) is drearily common on HN these days.

We get it, you have a fetish for replacing RAM (but seem to have forgotten that CPUs can also be replaced, oops your computer can't do that? soldered it to the mainboard? rubbish).

slow ram and low quality graphics. also i dont trust build quality considering apple’s recent history. had issues with my macbook pros, and mac mini. keyboard is decent but bluetooth seems to stutter for whatever reason every now and then when wifi 5g is on, same for the mouse. the mac mini 2018 encryption chip just failed out of the blue one day. i did consider buying a brand new maxed our macbook pro but i am seeing more and more reasons for not pissing 3600 gbp in the wind…for a one tb laptop with lame graphics. better quality builds out there for a better price.

but i really really like the os.

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