ARR and Mac

[Altena]

Since he passed away? It may be worse, but they've been doing that since before he died.

If you did a full teardown on any of their products before he passed, most of their components were fixable and upgradable by the user, provided you could source the hardware. The "Genius bar" employees (despite them being a bunch of do-so, unintelligent beings ) could fix nearly any issue on the earlier Macs on the spot (given a few hours depending), whereas now - all of their Macs aside from the regular MacBook Pro has to be sent away for pretty much any hardware issue.

Just looking at the teardowns on iFixit.com would show you this. None of their hardware was "glued in" as such (perhaps the logic board, but the other components weren't).

Since Jobbs passed away, all of their products aside from the regular MacBook Pro and Mac Pro are practically unfixable.

*edit* I will leave it at that though. Once again, I am not trying to convert a PC fanboy to give a Mac a go, I am just trying to highlight both sides of the fence so people can make a slightly more informed decision.

I see my opinion as fairly unbiased as I have had a lot of experience with both PC and Mac products, whereas a lot of the standpoints in this thread are based from one specific side of the market.