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Louis Rossman on professional dumpster diving

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Al_J22Nc...

I’m with Louis on this one as well - your garbage is fair game. My XP notebook that I found evidence of probable ESD damage evidence is actually built from a garbage chassis that probably had a bad screen and subpar plastic parts. Since I had enough to work with, I just grabbed parts from too far gone units with issues like drop damage and screens that were also busted. Since it was built accordingly, I can try again with another unit and I won’t feel bad about writing it off.

It’s the primary reason I could get such a nice unit that would easily hide in a well preserved corporate machine that was never built from such a parts supply - started with 8 systems with hardware I consider garbage because of various (expensive) issues I would want nothing to do with (bad screens, keyboards, chassis damage, etc). Since I was dealing with multiple units, I had all of the needed and the parts I liked were all available to pick from at will.

Yes, that notebook is the product of dumpster diving through corporate garbage - but you’d never know unless I told you since it’s near impossible to tell. Anyway, this video from Louis pretty much covers the issue well with Apple. If someone throws it away because it’s garbage, it’s 100% fair game to the party who wants it.

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Thanks for sharing, interesting and sad, very sad..makes me furious towards a company I loved and supported so much for the last 30 years.

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@arbaman Apple lost me when the 2012 rMBP was released with the soldered RAM and nonstandard SSD. The industrial strength tape holding the battery was just a bonus point against it. Once you throw the board/device out it's fair game to anyone who wants to pick at it and try to recover it or strip it for parts. Soldering the SSD and RAM is where I absolutely draw the line and blacklist it. Soldered RAM is a partial blacklist design.

I haven't had a modern Mac since that machine and the oldest I'd go is 2011/2012 (Non-Retina 13 only).

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Some technical choices may be questioned, but I can see a reason behind a soldered RAM, if you want to make a thin PC like an Air you don't have room for 2 traditional SODimm slots. On the other hand a proprietary pinout for the flash drive just points to close the door to competition and artificially keep prices up = greed. What's most concerning is that most technical choices we are seeing from those days onwards go towards the same direction and they keep pushing year after year both on Macs and iPhones. I agree with Michael Moore when in his capitalism movie he portraits corporations as greedy psycopaths, that's the only explanation for such attitude, especially when you already have 100billion cash you don't know how to spend.

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Yeah. I don't support a cap on your net worth (or company stock values) but Apple is making enough they can clearly burn cash and not bat an eye.

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Affluenza - When too much is never enough ;-)

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