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>Exposed PSU

Apple is trying to kill anyone who dares to repair their shit.

Hi there, I'll be your Apple Genius today. I'm sorry to hear that you're experiencing difficult with your Macintosh, let me assist you.

>Cant even open it up to clean it

We take care of that for you.

>cant replace ram, cpu or motherboard individually

We'd love to help you upgrade to increased capacity, would you like me to install it for you?

>hard as fuck to fix

Well we're not "geniuses" for nothing HA HA, but we're more than willing to help you

>Basically a laptop with even somehow worse thermals than a macbook "pro"

The MacBook is a beautiful machine.

>As a stalwort old ex macfag fan this new crap their peddling out is absolutely terrible

Thank you for your loyalty, would you like me to give you a tutorial on our newest features?

>inb4 louiscuckman linus shill shits

We like Linux took, but it isn't MacOS and doesn't have that feel

>Their not wrong, apple shat itself.

Please sir, this is a family friendly store.

>>949299

>an integrated webcam

…with duct tape resistance

until it can recognize a face, it refuses to function.

>>949429

The smart laptop which uses sophisticated AI technology to power save the moment you look away. Reimagining energy savings every day for a greener planet. Apple.

>>949500

Or just put bigger batteries in your shitty laptops. IDGAF if my powerful laptop is bigger. Look at the P series thinkpads thick as fuck because big battery and good cooling on powerful hardware.

https://www.lenovo.com/us/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-p/ThinkPad-P71/p/22TP2WPWP71

>>949546

The P50 is outdated, uncool awkward and not designed with love by creative professionals. You could bring a MacBook to a club and it wouldn't look out of place. Apple is the computer for this generation. Allow us to take you to the future of simplicity. Should I book you in for an appointment today?

>>949172

No, you daren't. If it takes a blatant strawman to "blow the fuck out" of your opponent, you never had an argument.

I hate Apple with more venom than a black mamba, but you newfaggots are embarrassing.

It's ridiculous for anyone to think that Apple was consumer friendly regarding self-repair. With the Apple ][, I will agree. With the macintosh and after, never was.

>>949627

That's a daring piece of bait.

Everyone knows that Apple products are designed for people who like to receive dick.

>>949871

I wrote it, and didn't even intend it to be as bait, just as obnoxious Apple fanboy speak. Which I actually wrote on a mac book pro with retina.

Aren't newer laptop models in general going this route too? I'm not up on whatever the latest shit is being peddled out at Best Buy

>>949895

yeah, intel forced this kind of thing as ultrabooks

Apple is a status symbol not a technological product. Its only purpose is to signal to others that you are either cool or rich. Can somebody, macfag or not, name me one fucking reason why you would buy a mac over even a windows machine. No you can't. It's just shitty BSD with an appstore. BTW mach kernel is gay lol.

>>950317

>BTW mach kernel is gay lol.

Solid technical argument.

>name me one fucking reason why you would buy a mac over even a windows machine

The user prefers OSX to Windows, perhaps owing to the user interface, or BSD internals.

>>950318

>BSD internals

Just use BSD lol.

>>950321

BSD is fine for servers, but not very pleasant on a laptop.

>>950407

The three brands in your pics all have different business line which is relatively maintainable for many years, here in the third world hell hole you can just go to the dodgy pc repair shop to get these cheap refurbished laptops that big corps threw away.

Many smaller accounting firms actually bought these cheap laptops for their employee now instead of full desktop.

Apple has no excuse but that's expected when your company is run by literal faggot(s).

>>950423

I personally dislike laptops, so I haven't even bothered looking into it, but do any of them have everything laptops used to in the 2000s?

>battery(ies) removable and hot swappable

>memory easily accessible

>cpu socket-mounted rather than soldered

>motherboard can be swapped without disassembling several dozen components

>other components like keyboard, pointer, antennae, and backlight removable without tape/solder/glue

>fucking external bays

>GPU on MXM instead of soldered

>phatter, sure, but not absurdly hueg, <6lbs @ ~15", for instance

>>949019 (OP)

>https://youtu.be/EdwDvz47lNw

As an EE I am both amazed and disgusted by the design of that iMac and its components.

>>950430

I have a HP ProBook and aside from having the intel security black hole processor it's breddy gud

>battery(ies) removable and hot swappable

Yes

>memory easily accessible

Yep, only a plastic shell with no screws

>cpu socket-mounted rather than soldered

It's apparently possible but with limited options, and I'm happy with an I5

>motherboard can be swapped without disassembling several dozen components

I haven't taken it apart but it doesn't look like there's much more than the plastic shell in the way

>other components like keyboard, pointer, antennae, and backlight removable without tape/solder/glue

The wifi module can be eaily removed, the antenna not so much as it is inside the screen shell, and that doesn't look very serviceable but I don't know as I haven't tried to swap that.

>fucking external bays

LOL

It has a slot for a docking station but not a single module for external GPU/HD

>GPU on MXM instead of soldered

It has no GPU, besides the integrated one from shitel.

>phatter, sure, but not absurdly hueg, <6lbs @ ~15", for instance

15.6" - 5,11 lbs