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  • Apple's Butterfly keyboard repair program winds down soon

    VictorMortimerVictorMortimer
    I'm not buying that a majority of owners didn't have problems with those horrible keyboards.  Some people just lived with it, but given the number of top case replacements I saw come through because of keyboards... nope, it was a problem for almost everybody.  Now, I'm not saying I didn't get a few users new batteries for free because the keyboard repair extension existed, but every one of those that I did the user was just living with at least one bad key because they weren't aware they could get it fixed for free.  If it hadn't existed I'd have put in a 3rd party battery, because buying a new top case just to change a battery is stupid.
    kdupuis77williamlondongrandact73MplsP

  • Apple refutes criticism of its carbon neutral plans by showcasing its rainforest efforts

    VictorMortimerVictorMortimer
    Oh look, greenwashing!

    The VAST majority of 'reforestation' projects are disasters.  I find it impossible to believe anything Apple is doing will be any different.  If Apple wants to be useful they'll build solar farms, not tree farms.

    On the user charging front, this naturally gets better as the grid gets higher and higher share of carbon-free energy, but Apple can further reduce usage from the grid by adding solar to their devices. It is at best a passive trickle charge, but the vast majority of time, that's how a laptop and most consumer devices are used. Sitting idle most of the time.

    The lid of a laptop is little less than 1 sq ft. 1 sq ft of 22% efficient PV cells gets you about 20 W in direct sunlight and 100 WHr on a typical sunny day if it is facing the sun correctly. For the M3 MBP13, Apple's quote of up to 18 hrs of web browsing on a 53 WHr battery means it is using on average 3 Watts to do that. A PV panel on the lid and even a PV panel on the palm wrest and trackpad in a sunlight room could do 3 Watts. Just keep trying to reduce electricity usage from the grid.
    Ok, that's just pointless nonsense.

    Laptops are virtually never used outdoors.  I think one of my laptops has seen direct sunlight maybe twice in the last two decades.  It's a complete waste of effort, energy, and material to put solar panels ON laptops.

    If Apple wants to do consumer solar (and really, that's not a great idea, it's Apple, it'll be overpriced) they should ship a folding solar panel with a USB power delivery port and battery bank.  Call it the "outdoor travel kit" or something.  Stick it outside, charge its battery, bring it in and charge the computer.  Or - even better - much better - make MacBook batteries hot swappable so we can put one battery on the solar panel and use another at the same time.  Wait, why does that sound familiar?  Oh yeah, BECAUSE YOU COULD DO IT A QUARTER CENTURY AGO WITH THE POWERBOOK G3.  I can't find a link, but that used to be a product.  3rd party, of course.
    williamlondon

  • M3 MacBook Air is easy to take apart, but parts pairing is still a pain

    VictorMortimerVictorMortimer
    macxpress said:
    Xed said:
    Good thing I don’t know anybody who gives a shirt about that, let alone any normals. 
    You know you can like Apple products -and- want them to be easier for DIYers to repair and upgrade.

    I found the video interesting and I'm glad that these are easier to repair. 
    While I agree the video is interesting, 99.999999% of Apple customers really don't give a shit one way or another if they can repair it. The vast majority will just take it somewhere to get fixed should something go wrong. It's really only some on these Mac forums that make a big stink about repairability because they think Apple should make a computer like they did back in the 90's where everything is removable. . 
    It's more like 10% that don't care.  The rest of us are sick of the consumer hostility.

    Even if you aren't going to fix it yourself, parts pairing makes repairs MUCH more expensive for everyone and causes millions of repairable devices to turn into landfill.

    And yes, some of us absolutely DO want computers to be made like they were in the '90s and 2000s when everything was removable.  It's the right way to build a computer that has parts that fail.  It's ridiculous that storage chips, which WILL fail, are soldered.  Even LPDDR5 RAM is now available in LPCAMM removable modules.  There's no excuse for Apple's nonsense.
    ctt_zhgrandact73williamlondon

  • M3 MacBook Air is easy to take apart, but parts pairing is still a pain

    VictorMortimerVictorMortimer
    Oregon has now passed a right to repair law that bans parts pairing. 

    Apple's days of keeping us from being able to repair our own computers are coming to an end.  It only takes one state to make Apple's consumer hostility end in the US.
    muthuk_vanalingamwilliamlondon

  • Future iPhone may get displays and controls on the edges

    VictorMortimerVictorMortimer
    Brings new dimensions to "You're holding it wrong".

    What an absolutely stupid idea.
    williamlondon