Fantastic to see and I hope that this extends to upgradability too, it's absurd that the only way to get more storage on so called "professional" products like macbooks is to purchase a brand new one.
There is nothing professional or unprofessional about a device except a name. In the old days, business-targeted devices such as PCs and laptops had user-serviceable parts so that the support could quickly replace a broken fan or faulty memory die and you could get back to work. These days are long gone and I'm sorry to say I blame Apple for a large part of it.
works great if your employees are onsite and you have a big support dept. You're going to need to have employees w/ spare time waiting for repairs, you're going to need to stock extra parts, you're going to have to hire guys with skills to do that work. For those of us who are remote, or who don't have a big IT dept, that was never a good option.
I can get a brand new company macbook shipped to my house in less than 24 hrs if anything goes wrong w/ my machine, and things rarely go wrong. You can't realistically beat that
Yeah, how dare they design laptops not filled to the brim with unnecessary components?
Those 'faulty' memory parts were often 'fixed' by reseating them, a problem soldered-on memory doesn't have.
Broken fans were probably the cheapest obtainable.
Those things just don't break so often anymore. I prefer welded shut quality stuff over a never ending chain of repairs.
I like Apple for batteries that last longer than 12 months, screens with high resolution and reference color, lightweight housing that's not too flimsy. (just don't talk about the keyboards from 2016-2018 ;) )
