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When I needed a new battery for the Macbook Pro a couple of years ago, I was told by the Apple store that they no longer made that battery. I did find one after market.
True…plenty of places to purchase a battery if Apple no longer carries them.
It seems that Apple has taken to make their hardware "obsolete" after about 5 or 6 years.
Not exactly. Apple tends to classify older models as "vintage"…which pretty much means the Apple Store will no longer work on them. But this doesn'tt mean the computer itself is obsolete. Lots of places to go to get parts & repairs performed (authorized Apple repair locations & other computer repair professionals). Not to mention DIY.
And by the way…when a Dell, Samsung, HP, etc. computer has a problem…where do these folks go for repairs?? Where's the HP store located?? It's called do a DIY repair…or go to an independent repair professional.
When one of my iMacs blew a power supply in 2015, I was told that Apple had no parts. Furthermore, they advised me that the part was proprietary and there were no "specs" for substitution. Went to the recycler.
Possibly true that Apple no longer carried the parts…but I can guarantee you there would have been no problems finding a replacement power supply on eBay, Powerbookmedic.com, and many other websites.
A few months later, the second iMac blew a video card. Same thing. Off to the recycler.
Yes…this one might have been a different story. Some iMac models do have replaceable video cards. And if not…there is always the replace the logic board route. But these two options could have been too expensive to pursue.
During a recent visit to the Apple store, one of their technicians told me that he sells off his Mac stuff after about 3 years and buys new. The old stuff is still working but by doing this, he doesn't have to worry about any unrepairable catastrophic failures that create absolute nightmares.
Sounds to me that this Apple technician simply likes to get a new computer every 3 years…and nothing to do with avoiding "catastrophic nightmares". Also remember…after 3 years most Apple computers have lost a big chunk of their value via depreciation. Thus a catastrophic nightmare isn't as bad as it sounds.
And in most cases…the catastrophic situations are usually caused by users themselves…via abuse (physical damage due to dropping a computer)…or liquid spills (again due to user error).
Be nice to your computer…and the majority of the time it will be nice to you!
- Nick