Brony3535

jkichline said:

bitmod said:

Massive money grab meant to render out of warranty products useless. 
If the new iMacs and Mac pros have this, then Apple can kiss the Pro market goodbye. Who’s going to buy pro gear with no aftermarket value? Want to replace a HDD... that will be $960 at your authorized dealer thank you...

First off, Macs retain their value. Most end-users use the product until it it is finished its productive life and then hand it down or sell it for a decent sum and upgrade to a newer machine. We have a 2013 MacBook Pro in the office that’s still chugging along and just updated a 2012 MacBook Air. The old machines are still usable. Macs not only retain their value, but continue to work long after they are supported by Apple.

You are also quite myopic in your evaluation. No one is saying the device can’t be worked on out of warrantee. It just needs to be done by someone who is certified by Apple to do so. That’s it. That’s the only requirement. There are authorized Apple service centers all over. If it’s not nearby, you can mail it in.

Lastly, your obvious use of hyperbole is astounding. Really? You think that’s what authorized service centers would charge for a replaceable hard drive? Mind you that modern Macs mostly have the storage soldered to the motherboard so you would need to replace that too. The whole notion is that your Mac has enough storage to work for most of what you need and if you need more storage, you have Thunderbolt 3 which is PCI Express on a cable running 40 gbit/sec. I think you’ll be fine. You’ll be able to buy 2 TB of SSD storage for $100 in 10 years and have all the storage you could need.

PS: Macs don’t use HDD anymore... they use SSD.