I don't run a repair shop or anything, so I can't claim to know the numbers, but it is my opinion that most Macs break due to a defect unrelated to storage or memory. The point is that 'if they break' it will still be 'get a new one' because whether a manufacturing defect kills the logic board or liquid damage does the trick, that logic board is toast no matter what. I would rather be able to swap out the SSD and the RAM, sure, I am not saying Apple shouldn't offer that or that I like their business practices. How many dead Macbooks can be brought back to life just by swapping memory or the SSD? There will very often be a shorted component or blown capacitor on the logic board, or bad solder points like on those 20 models with the Nvidia graphics. A friend had a flexgate 2016 model (a too short display cable rips off the connector thus damaging the logic board and the display assembly) they had to bring in for repair, and so on. I had logic boards of Macbooks 20 break due to the Nvidia defect, half a dozen times per device (!). Of course that does not excuse the repair-unfriendly Apple designs.Ĭlick to expand.But you had that same issue when you could still swap out memory and storage.

But when I ask them to make a backup they laugh and literally refuse to.Īt this point it's hard for me to emphasize with someone for losing their data, if you buy a computer you should at least research the basics and just googling 'should i make backups' would do the trick. They got 90% of their data back and lost merely an hour of work (thankfully I used rsync) and ended up blaming me because none of this would have happened if it wasn't for creating the backup in the first place.Īnd another friend keeps their one year university project on a Mac with no backups - I replaced the old HDD for them with the most expensive non-qlc Samsung SSD I could find to give the data a better survival chance. I 'forced' a good friend to take a backup of their external drive and while it was finishing up they accidentally knocked the whole thing off the desk and that external drive (2.5 HDD) from that point on just clicked without spinning up.

Many people are aware that hardware can fail and just choose not to bother doing backups.

Click to expand.That is true, however whenever you plug any external drive into a Mac Timemachine will ask you if you want to use it as a backup drive, and at least I have hammered into friend's brains to take backups regularly that it's become a running gag with some to ask me if my backup is up to date.

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