| nightsurge said: 1. You are right, I worded it wrong. I should have said "Apple has effectively influenced the willingness of a user to upgrade on his/her own" 2. Not sure about the battery, but the HDD and the RAM BOTH require the back plate removed. As shown in this document, page 38 (the newest version of the MacBookPro and the 17" model: http://manuals.info.apple.com/en_US/MacBook_Pro_17inch_Early2009.pdf 3. Most laptops just require a single compartment removed to replace HDD and RAM. Some Dells are gay and split up RAM like Apple has been known to do and put it in hard to access places, but Dell is not an MS company, and I dispise them as a PC maker. 4. And lastly, I could care less about how Mac wants to be all "green" lately. They have always been known for their proprietary and idiotic hardware decisions. Sure they run off of mostly the same hardware these days, which is why the price is by no means justified. They fail at the same rate as PCs, there is just so many less of them, that people are given the illusion that they are more reliable and somehow "safer" even though year after year it is the Macs that fall the fastest and hardest at hacking conventions. You are probably right about me not being able to hold a 100% genuine conversation about Apple computers, but that is entirely because of the personal oppinion I have developed from all the awful first hand experiences I have had with their hardware and I have personally seen that there is absolutely no justification for it. I really do hope that more companies like those Apple-Clone builders pop up to screw Apple and force them to un-monopolize their products. |
1. Yes, that is true. With the UniBody MacBook and 15.4" MacBook Pro it is now much easier to change the HDD than before, so yes, Apple has influenced the willingness of the users.
2. For the 17" UniBody MacBook Pro that is correct, but not for the 15.4" model which has the same battery/HDD compartment with a simple latch on the cover as the 13" UniBody MacBook.
3. So what is the difference here? For the 17" MacBook Pro you have to unscrew the back plate to access the memory and HDD, for 15.4" MacBook Pro and 13" MacBook you open a latch to access the battery and HDD, or unscrew the back plate to access the memory. Is that so much more difficult than what needs to be done on the PC side?
4. I'm genuinely sorry you feel that way, as I believe that being enviromentally friendlier is of utmost importance for all of us. It's not just you that's affected by your consuming habits, you know.
What kind of awful first hand experiences have you had with Apple hardware? Something that couldn't happen with regular PC's, or are you just more tolerant to the harware problems with them? I'm not trying to say Apple makes problem-free hardware, I've had some issues myself too, but the total amount of frustration and outright suffering because of computers has dramatically diminished since I made the switch to Macs. That is in part because of the hardware and in part because of the software, i.e. the platform that Apple sells.
