🎶 Happy Birthday, Apple! 🎶🎂❤️

Back in the day... long, long ago. In a little town far, far away. A love affair with tech blossomed. A "young lady" (me) found herself with 0's and 1's.

Yes, they still work! I've moved them several times. Can't part with them.

#HappyBirthday
#AppleMac

Just finished disassembling a late-Intel-era Macbook Pro to remove the spicy pillows from it, and I gotta say, I am not impressed with Apple's hardware engineering on it.

I'm not talking about them gluing the cells of the battery to the case - that's been discussed to death, and was unnecessary. I'm talking about some other rather bad choices made during design.

Specifically: fasteners. In general, you want the fewest different types of threaded fasteners possible in your design. Fewer parts to keep in stock, fewer possible mistakes when assembling and disassembling units, etc. And Apple utterly failed this design rule.

It's like each separate part in this machine is held in with 3 different fasteners. Sometimes that's unavoidable in a design; you're using machine screw #1 for most things, but there's one that has to go into this particular place where it can't be as deep/long or there isn't room for the same head or something. But in this case, most of the fasteners are different for no very good reason. There's room for them to have used a common screw for many of the cases where they just ... didn't.

Paying the Apple tax for this kind of janky design (and user-hostile repairability) is just insulting.

"Designed badly in California, manufactured in China".

#Apple #AppleTax #Macbook #MacbookPro #glue #SpicyPillow #design #BadDesign #hardware #janky #UserHostile #CaptiveMarket #AppleMac

For #MARCHintosh here's a playlist of PeerTube videos about the Apple Macintosh series of computers:

 https://fedi.video/w/p/pvDUZ5ertnHPQhfFvWq9pS

- Watching on a phone: Swipe up first two videos at bottom to browse rest of playlist

- Watching on a computer: Choose video by scrolling through playlist on right of screen

- Watching embedded: Click ⏭️ or ⏮️ to see next or previous videos in playlist

#FeaturedPlaylist #Macintosh #Mac #AppleMac #PeerTube

Warum ich den Apple Mac Mini M2 pro bestelle

https://pallenberg.video/w/xf5hS7MnzN2RYRKkap4E6d

Super happy to have my SE/30 back after it having been given the @DosFox treatment. Hugely appreciate the effort and so pleased that it should have another 30+ years in it. It is the best all-in-one classic Mac, after all 😍

#ClassicMac #ClassicApple #MacSE30 #SE30 #AppleMac #AppleMacintosh