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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.

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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).

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