In some parts of the world, 4090s and 4080s were easily accessible after launch.

Scalpers lost a shit ton of money trying to scalp 4080's. I think they might sit this one out.

Thank you so much Apple! 🙇🏻 Now make sure you don’t overwork your overseas workers in what is slavery with extra stops in order to fulfill your investors’ quota.

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depends, if it's a 4090 it will sell out. 4080 though and nobody will care, especially since this model will be 2-300 dollars more than the base model.

16-Pin 12VHPWR connector ? I think I'll pass.

I think that phase has subsided with the 40-series now going by the recent news or especially with a 4080.

And nobody will be able to buy them because scalpers and bots!

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I think you mean expand back to desktops. The old G5 towers were practically begging to be user replaceable with their interior design.

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If I understand correctly, it’s still not great for repair shops because the parts are expensive enough that you can’t really make any money and because you can only get the parts on demand (i.e. you can’t buy parts to just have on hand). That and the pain in the ass time wasting process you have to go through to pair the serialized parts through an Apple specialist once the repair is done.

This is only really targeting individuals who want to repair their own devices, but even then, it’s priced such that you’re usually better off just having Apple do it themselves.

I doubt it.

Apple is famous for not keeping extra inventory around and all the tooling for building parts for older devices is probably long gone/repurposed.

At best, you’ll probably only start seeing replacement parts for new devices moving forward.

You do not have to participate in this, it's not a way for them to fake anything. I fucking hate Apple, I have never and will never own any of their products. But this is good. This means independent repair shops also have access to these parts. Which means it will be cheaper for the consumer to get something repaired, especially if they don't pay for the Apple care bullshit. Instead of being forced to buy an entirely new device, which was common before because people who didn't have Apple care would either be charged more than the cost of a new device, or be lied to that it couldn't be fixed.

Most repair professionals lobbying for right to repair actually acknowledge that and are totally fine with Apple making things more complex as a trade off for a sleeker device. Microsoldering is a skill people pay good money for. Funny enough, Apple is making things a bit easier to repair now (e.g. removal tape on laptop batteries) as it got even too hard for them to handle repairs themselves.

What third party repair professionals aren’t okay with is Apple purposely not providing board schematics, making deals with chip manufacturers to ensure that nobody can buy certain chips on the boards for repairs, and serializing parts ensuring certain things can never be replaced properly without Apple’s servers blessing it (e.g. screens, batteries, etc).

The idea is you should own your device you fully paid for and should have the right to fix it.

definitely no. the answer is no. you cannot add ram to the mac studio, it is on the same silicon as the CPU/GPU

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Can I “repair” my m1 Mac mini with a larger ssd then?

Knowing nothing about the hardware, could they have made it simpler given how tightly packed their hardware tends to be?

I always assumed that the complexity made their size and weight reductions possible.

LOL good luck plebs.

Kit or no kit they mode those things a pain in the ass to work on.

But this shit program is horrible. Save like 10% of the cash to do it yourself in comparison to the Apple store. This isn’t a win, it’s a slimey way for them to just fake repair offerings.

10% savings, like 8 hours of your day with full accountability of damage if you fail in anyway…

These parts are priced insane…. $450 for a 1TB storage module? Shit, just the enclosure + the bottom is almost the price of a Mac mini. What a joke.

Bullet, meet foot. Greed. Meet law and order.

Nope, not even that! I just checked it out. You have to enter your serial number, then you can only order the same config that you have when you order a new logic board.