MacBook Neo Is the Most Repairable MacBook in 14 Years

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3 pointstosh3 comments

Well, I’ve got one of those 10/10 T14s and a few more screws here or there would have made it a better computer, and probably would have prevented the need for the repair it did receive. Which was almost certainly caused by shoddy assembly rather than a faulty component.

i absolutely never ever in a million years would have guessed this to be the case

Why? If they release a new hardware architecture twice a year, there’s been about 30 of them in 14 years, so if repairability is uncorrelated with time, there still is a 1:30 chance this would be the most repairable.

Also, there’s pressure to improve repairability. Many jurisdictions have right to repair laws now.

I don’t think https://eur-lex.europa.eu/eli/dir/2024/1799/oj/eng directly applies to laptops, but I think it eventually will.

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