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0 pointsttfkam2y ago0 comments

Watch the video I linked. Modern Macs are a single capacitor failure away from shorting 13v straight to those "amazing focus on quality" SSD chips. Either one of the two chips dies, you have a brick. No booting from external drive. Nothing. A brick. All because one capacitor fails.

If it were just a matter of replacing a capacitor, I'd agree with you. But the wiring decisions from their "amazing focus" defaults to a 13v short to storage chips—all your files AND the BIOS up in a puff of literal smoke.

And finally, Apple doesn't design and manufacture solid state storage devices. They contract out to other companies. Those other companies also sell NVMe storage devices with substantially similar chip designs.

Don't believe the hype. A ten cent capacitor taking out a $3K laptop isn't "above and beyond"; it's penny pinching at the expense of reliability with no concessions made to either repairability or resilience.

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droopyEyelids2y ago· 2 in thread

You guys who are rossmann-pilled should put that as a disclaimer in your comments.

ttfkamOP2y ago

Guilt by association and/or ad hominem are weak sauce. What part was factually inaccurate?

• That storage is soldered unlike the vast majority of laptops on the market, which use standard NVMe sticks?

• That the BIOS is stored in those soldered SSD chips making a single point of failure?

• That if even one of the chips fails, you lose all the data including the BIOS boot logic and brick the device?

• That the board layout sends 13v down the rail directly to the aforementioned SSD chips on capacitor failure?

• That they cannot be repaired anymore, even by experienced professionals?

• That replacement parts that aren't severely compromised (unknown number of write cycles for SSD chips) simply aren't available?

Which part is false and requires a disclaimer? And I ask this as someone who has personally used Macs exclusively on the client since 2003 and professionally since 2011. Owned nothing but iPhones since the original was released in 2007. 5 iPads in total.

I'm no blind Apple hater.

droopyEyelids2y ago

It's not a question of guilt! It's about making it easier to skim the comments.

Rossmann-based answers look like interesting "original thought" comments till you're a few sentences in, and realize you're reading a Rossmann rehash.

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