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The new MacBook Neo is the most repairable MacBook we’ve seen in 14 years. Screwed-in battery tray, modular ports, sensible layout, and day-one repair manuals. It’s not perfect, but it’s a real step forward for MacBook repair. Read the full breakdown at the link below.

https://www.ifixit.com/News/116152/macbook-neo-is-the-most-repairable-macbook-in-14-years
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Infoseepage 8h ago

@iFixit Also has very easy fan replacement...since there is none.

@Infoseepage @iFixit No fan? How do they keep the temperature down?

Infoseepage 3h ago

@enriquericos @iFixit It's a cell phone system of a chip, same one as in last but one Iphones. Iphones don't have fans either, do they? I'm not sure if they're clocking the Neo faster and they've obviously got much more space to work with in the Neo in terms of adding heat sinks/heat spreaders. I'd love to see what this thing looks like in terms of thermal throttling under sustained heavy load.

@Infoseepage @iFixit Well, that explains a lot. But I still wonder if it'll become a stove under heavy usage. I'll watch iFixit's vid 🙂

Longplay Games 8h ago

@iFixit Steps forward are steps forward, and I'm happy to see it.

@iFixit I have no need but I kinda want one.

Ambulocetus 8h ago

@iFixit It sounds too good to be true. What's the "catch"?

10tothe22 7h ago

@Ambulocetus @iFixit There isn’t a catch. Apple filling out the price/value slots. This is a low risk attempt at growth in the low-cost laptop market. Honestly, they may knock it out of the park. I mean every school and school kid. Retail even.

Carlos Solís 6h ago

Arguably, the catch is that the RAM caps at 8 GB, but that's due to the architecture of the device. (I wonder how much can it rely on swapfiles to compensate...)

@iFixit it would be nice if the Switch 2 console was as easy to repair.

make-log 7h ago

@iFixit I am wondering if the increased repairability is due to Apple being good and sustainable or laws that enforce this.

I guess the latter is the case.

@iFixit I am throughly shocked at this device. My one complaint is it still needs calibration software when you swap parts, but the software is included in the OS at least.

Jason Bowen 🇺🇦5h ago

@rogueren @iFixit
What does it need to "calibrate?"

@jbowen @iFixit 🤷

Marco Antonio Pérez 7h ago

@iFixit @Barredo Es muy buena noticia

@iFixit Oh! So Apple CAN let us repair their computers. Interesting.

@tubrofan211 @iFixit Do not get a head of yourself. First you need to become an Apple Cetrified Technicien. Us mere mortals are too incapable to work on Apple devices.

At the very least it is nice to see that manufacturers have been lying through their teeth about repairability.

Jason Bowen 🇺🇦5h ago

@Fenrasulfr @tubrofan211 @iFixit
"most repairable macbook" is a very, very low bar.

@jbowen @tubrofan211 @iFixit Maybe but it shows that the company famous for being creating extremely difficult to repair devices with software locks just showed that they ar pefectly capable of making fully repairable devices.

Magnus Ahltorp 5h ago

@Fenrasulfr @jbowen @tubrofan211 @iFixit You do know that they have had laptops with even hot-swappable batteries, special easy-access hatches for memory, easily replaceable hard drives with decent repair manuals, etc? It’s mostly their recent stuff that has been soldered down and glued.

@ahltorp @jbowen @tubrofan211 @iFixit Yes I know Apple and many other manufactures were perfectly repairable. It was also Apple that popularised non repairable designs.

Magnus Ahltorp 5h ago

@Fenrasulfr Laptops were not ”perfectly repairable” in the ’90s.

@ahltorp You get what I mean, compared to today, you could "easily" open up laptops and get repair parts for them. Some allowed you to upgrade components long befor Framework was a thing. So please stop being so pedantic.

Magnus Ahltorp 3h ago

@Fenrasulfr I've worked 35 years on and with laptops, and repairability has fluctuated both for Apple and non-Apple laptops. Early laptops were known for being easy to take apart and very difficult to put together.

Quite recently I tried to rescue data from a PC laptop hard drive, which I managed to get out, but only to find that the interface was not compatible with anything.

Apple needs to be bashed for a lot of things, but here I don't think they've been any worse than the others.

@ahltorp I do not think they are the worst either, but they were definitely the once that popularised the modern laptop.
I honnestly think the worst are the companies that make 200 euro throw away laptops to scam unknowing people with.

Phillip Plays 5h ago

@iFixit Good news! Working on laptops is such a bitch, but I'm glad we at least can if we need to 😂

@iFixit
#Framework creating ripples that even make Apple move? Cool.

Silicon Dryad 4h ago

@iFixit my goodness, is it opposite day??!!

Noel Kelly 2h ago

Oh, look they put an iphone 16 in a laptop case.

Dawn Tåke 🌙

@iFixit
Thinking about how one of the ports in my non-Mac laptop is filled with a rubber plug because the plastic bit broke out and it's a part of the motherboard, so it can't be replaced. :/

pibert π 38m ago

@iFixit apple felt the stocks lol