Kyle weighs in on the non-upgradeable Retina MacBook.
We offered some commentary in our teardown yesterday, but today Kyle has published some further analysis:
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Just read this, excellent article Kyle! I wish you had a larger pulpit- the tide is against us, unfortunately.
How about perhaps doing teardowns of comparable hardware and rating them, I think this might help getting the message out? If people see their options are getting a MacBook Air with 2/10 repair rating, or XYZ Ultrabook with better specs for same price, but 6/10 repair rating- might that not help?
Also I think it's great to just show what different manufacturers are doing in order to facilitate repair- for example the HP Z1 receiving a 10/10, for that amazing and innovative design (if I'm in the market for a desktop soon, and opt to get an all-in-one instead of building a tower, the Z1 has 10 very compelling reasons out of 10 to earn my purchase).
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We also published it on wired, and it's on the front page right now. So hopefully that's a bigger pulpet!
Yeah that's nice, my point though was that still is just in like the geeky community and stuff- this stuff needs to get mainstream, out of the subculture and into society as a whole.
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Also, I'm doing a Reddit AMA Q&A session tonight, drop on by!
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yay reddit! see you there!
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...and I just realized I have nothing to ask you since we talk already on here
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