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  • If you want a custom Mac Studio or MacBook Pro, expect to wait up to three months

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    I noticed that looking at the 128GB model with 4TB drive. Since you cannot upgrade it later you can’t just buy a model that is available now and upgrade after the supply chain issues have abated.
    williamlondon

  • Apple's Self Repair Program toolkit - Hands on with what's inside

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    Xed said:
    mikethemartian said:
    macxpress said:
    lkrupp said:
    slurpy said:
    Still cannot believe Apple did this. Pretty massive endeavour. And of course not a single positive word uttered by the right to repair hypocrites and trolls. Just more criticism and complaining.  
    When you understand that the right-to-repair advocates won’t be satisfied with anything less than a complete redesign of the iPhone you know why they are still upset. They literally want snap-apart enclosures with gaskets instead of adhesives, standard Phillips screws, snap-in batteries, third party parts, no special tools required. Go to some of the right-to-repair websites and you’ll see what they want. 

    On an anecdotal note I wanted to replace the light bulb in my microwave oven some years ago. When taking apart the enclosure I discovered one of the screws was a non-standard pentium head. It became clear the manufacturer didn’t want the user anywhere near the magnetron tube. There were warnings all over that there were no user serviceable parts inside. 
    This is exactly what these people want. They want Apple to design all Apple products as completely modular with everything imaginable replaceable. They will fight everything possible until they get this. I just don't get these people TBH. 
    I just want a company not to go out of their way to make things more difficult to repair when it doesn’t have to be. It’s not black or white. In engineering there are always trade offs. I have no issue with something being more complicated if there is a valid engineering reason made by the engineers to make it that way. But when it is arbitrary and capricious decision made by others that is a different matter.
    I'm curious what you think is a random choice or personal whim by Apple, rather than any reason or systematic approach?
    I would have to consider them on a case by case basis. But I will mention one I saw when looking at Samsung’s self repair instructions on iFixit. Why do they need to use adhesive to mount the battery that then requires a copious amount of solvent to remove for replacement? Are they incapable of designing a kinematic mount?
    darkvader

  • Apple's Self Repair Program toolkit - Hands on with what's inside

    mikethemartianmikethemartian
    macxpress said:
    lkrupp said:
    slurpy said:
    Still cannot believe Apple did this. Pretty massive endeavour. And of course not a single positive word uttered by the right to repair hypocrites and trolls. Just more criticism and complaining.  
    When you understand that the right-to-repair advocates won’t be satisfied with anything less than a complete redesign of the iPhone you know why they are still upset. They literally want snap-apart enclosures with gaskets instead of adhesives, standard Phillips screws, snap-in batteries, third party parts, no special tools required. Go to some of the right-to-repair websites and you’ll see what they want. 

    On an anecdotal note I wanted to replace the light bulb in my microwave oven some years ago. When taking apart the enclosure I discovered one of the screws was a non-standard pentium head. It became clear the manufacturer didn’t want the user anywhere near the magnetron tube. There were warnings all over that there were no user serviceable parts inside. 
    This is exactly what these people want. They want Apple to design all Apple products as completely modular with everything imaginable replaceable. They will fight everything possible until they get this. I just don't get these people TBH. 
    I just want a company not to go out of their way to make things more difficult to repair when it doesn’t have to be. It’s not black or white. In engineering there are always trade offs. I have no issue with something being more complicated if there is a valid engineering reason made by the engineers to make it that way. But when it is arbitrary and capricious decision made by others that is a different matter.
    darkvadermuthuk_vanalingam

  • Apple hires labor-busting lawyers to fight employees' efforts to unionize

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    Madbum said:
    Why? I would just fire the trouble makers or cut their hours or shift to commission pay as I am sure none of the unionizers are any good
    I’m neutral on unions because I think everyone on both sides has a right to pursue their own self interest. However interfering with the formation of a union has been against US federal law for a very long time.
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  • Teardown of Apple's new & long Thunderbolt 4 Pro Cable highlights why it's so expensive

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    melgross said:
    People have gotten so used to cheap cables that last 15 years, or so, that they’ve forgotten just how expensive they used to be. My last Adaptec SCSI cable cost $168 a long time ago. In today’s dollars it would be almost twice that. And we didn’t complain because we knew that’s what they would cost.

    people today complain about everything.
    For a high frequency RF lab you can pay thousands of dollars to get a pair of phase matched cables.
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