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As cool as this is, it's a DOA product with no real market outside super savvy consumers. Uninformed consumers already buy the cheapest laptops they can find on Amazon or in the store.

If repairability is super important to someone, what incentive is there to buy this over a used thinkpad? You can get skylake thinkpads for less than $200 on ebay - replacement batteries and displays cost less than $100.

> Every part of this is a made-up, unsupported, bad-faith, outright lie. No part of this is “more likely” based on my 30 years of experience of actually dealing with Apple. What’s actually more likely, in my experience, is Apple going above and beyond to cover repairs, even out of warranty, for issues that are even partially their fault.

You are engaging in projection.

> “Attempting to upsell” doesn’t pass the laugh test.

Then there should be no reason to force the user to come in to a retail shop to get approved repairs on their machines then, and apple can save lots of money by going to mail-in repairs.

> And it’s incredibly crass and irresponsible of you to toss around words like “intentionally grenade the hardware” without the slightest hint of evidence.

There's hundreds of examples in this thread alone.

More likely that apple will just price gouge on a motherboard replacement and just trash the old one. And of course, they will do this only after attempting to upsell the user on an entirely new system.

It reeks of shade to intentionally grenade the hardware just to get more door traffic at retail locations.

This looks overtly malicious. There's really no excuse for people to be seeing over 30TB of writes to their drives if they only use their system for browsing the web or dev work.

My main NVMe drive's stats, after almost a year of ownership, after 3 OS installs (windows and linux, though I moved windows to a smaller less used sata ssd a few months ago) and frequently moving big files on/off network storage, installing games, and dev work for small personal projects etc:

  Available Spare:                    100%
  Available Spare Threshold:          10%
  Percentage Used:                    0%
  Data Units Read:                    200,214,119 [102 TB]
  Data Units Written:                 27,304,663 [13.9 TB]
  Host Read Commands:                 616,298,176
  Host Write Commands:                387,970,043

It's intentional. Tesla wasn't covering these repairs under warranty and are upselling people with failed MCUs to MCU2 upgrades which cost $1500+labor.

If you search around, you will also find countless posts of people being denied warranty work for their Tesla's or fixes only being billed as good will after the customer fights back.