hello its me MJ and I fix it and it is
officially summertime though you
wouldn't really know it cuz it's been
busier than ever here at the office as
I'm sure you already know Apple released
an updated MacBook Pro with a Retina
display
another updated MacBook Pro with a
regular old display and an updated
MacBook Air so we had three different
computers and the Retina display on our
teardown operating table in case you
haven't already checked out the tear
downs we'll go ahead and link to them
down in the description but for now I'm
going to give you these super distilled
version of the story that has been
dominating the conversations here at the
office the MacBook Pro with Retina
display while skinnier and lighter and
more gorgeous than any MacBook Pro to
date is also the least repairable Mac to
hit the market it scored just one out of
10 for repairability and that's the
lowest repair ability score we've ever
awarded the RAM is soldered to the logic
board the battery is glued down and
basically nothing is replaceable with
the retina MacBook Pro it really comes
down to whether or not we as consumers
say it's ok to continue producing
devices that are not only not
upgradeable but are unrepairable Kyle
our CEO wrote a great post about it for
Wired which we'll also link to down in
the description this is more than me
wanting to add RAM to my computer or
wanting to replace its battery this is
about the life cycle of electronics in a
time when everything from disposable
plastic shopping bags to fast fashion
retailers are being reconsidered because
of their negative impact on the world
consumers need to take a good hard look
at companies like Apple and decide
whether it's worth sacrificing the value
of sustainability on the altar of
18-month product cycles as an Apple fan
myself it's hard to set my fandom aside
and really consider the implications of
Apple's design choices but as mature
thoughtful adults it's what we need to
do some folks have been critical of our
assessment being that we do sell parts
and tools for repair but here's the
thing our parting tool store is a means
to an end it's what enables us to power
our mission of teaching everyone to
repair everything and to keep gadgets
useful for as long as possible speaking
of which that is another thing that's
been keeping us extra busy around here
we also launched three new products to
our store and posted eight
eleven iMac dual harddrive upgrade video
the products we launched are the
universal USB charging cable which I
love the universal drive adapter and the
SATA wonder cable all of which will be
linked down in the description we
generally don't post our product videos
here on the YouTube channel so if you
want to see those products in action you
can watch the videos that we posted on
the product pages that about wraps us up
for what we've been doing here for the
past couple of weeks and as it is
officially summertime I do want to
encourage you to get started on any
repair projects you might have been
putting off to push you in the right
direction go ahead and use the coupon
code fix your summer to save five
dollars in our parts and tools store all
I ask in return is that when you do get
around to fixing your thing that you let
me know about it
you can send me your repair stories and
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repairing