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comment by OftenBen
OftenBen  ·  1434 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Pubski: May 20, 2020

Mostly referring to your willingness to tear open a Mac at home.

The Apple people I know are studiously repair-averse.





kleinbl00  ·  1434 days ago  ·  link  ·  

iMacs of that vintage are manageable. Most critters of that vintage are manageable.

Macbooks? Not so much. And the modern ones are entirely glued together. Yeah you can unscrew shit but that just gets you to the J/K layer.

steve  ·  1434 days ago  ·  link  ·  

it's the third iMac I've opened... but definitely the most invasive of repairs. they REALLY don't want the lay people inside of this thing. I mean... the screen is GLUED ON. at least the previous versions used magnets and/or screws. This thing is just weird. But once I got my mind wrapped around the adhesives, the rest is all just screws and ribbon cables (about a billion each)

edit: if any of your repair averse apple friends want to send me their gear instead of trashing it... I'm always open for donations