• FlashMobOfOne@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    Apple builds obsolescence into their products on purpose.

    If you’d bought a PC, a faulty screen would be easily replaceable. I had to replace my laptop screen myself several years ago, and with a $60 part and ten minutes on youtube, it was an easy repair.

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      Not really anymore. They make them expensive to repair, but they also don’t want you to switch to another brand, because for them a user in the ecosystem purchasing apps and subscriptions is worth way more than a frustrated user purchasing a one time display replacement. Their whole strategy now (for a few years really) is to make devices that last at minimum 5 years, because it makes the user happy that their 5yo phone still works, and that means they are likely to get another iPhone, and because as long as the user is in the ecosystem, they are making money by taking their cut of everything that happens on the device

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        I still use a 2011 MacBook Pro. It’s running Linux Mint now and hasn’t been my primary laptop for a couple of years now, but it’s still a solid machine. In fact, as is the norm with Apple stuff, it lost OS support long before it stopped being a viable laptop.

        Fortunately, Opencore Legacy Patcher exists…

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            1 month ago

            Yeah, that’s the route I’m expecting to take. It’s why I’m dipping my toes into Linux now.

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            That’s the same spec as mine, though I also replaced the DVD drive with a second SSD.

            And yeah, in theory you dual boot, but in practice I managed to bugger mine up, so it’s 100% Mint.

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        1 month ago

        Oddly enough, the reason why I did the repair myself was that the shop quoted me $400, haha. It’s nice to live in a world where you can fix your own stuff, something that Apple also does their best to prevent.

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          It sounds like you quoted the “piss off price”. They didn’t really want to do it, so they just quoted a stupid amount of money if you’d taken them up on it it would have been worth it for them to do it but they were hoping you wouldn’t.

          Screen replacements for laptops are a pain because it’s never all that obvious from the beginning how easy it will be. For you it was apparently simple but it depends massively on the laptop and they may not have an encyclopedic knowledge of which laptops are easy and which laptops are hard.