* Posts by Cenk

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Stop using that MacBook Pro RIGHT NOW, says Uncle Sam: Loyalists suffer burns, smoke inhalation and worse – those crappy keyboards

Cenk
Coffee/keyboard

Fixing the car analogy

Hi HildyJ, to make your car analogy more accurate, imagine that your car was recalled due to a bad battery, but the manufacturer had designed that battery to fit within the tubular framing of the car structure, and it was welded shut with no access port. Then *thats* a closer comparison to what's required of Apple repair personnel. (I would not want the job of repairing any modern Apple product. They should make form-over-function obsessionist Jony Ive work at the repair center until this fiasco is over. Oops, he's quitting... How conveniently timed.) Of course your car is probably very thin -- although not quite as thin as competitors -- and so that's worth the hassle of repairs, right? ;-p

I was an Apple "switcher" back in 2005 (Mac Pros, laptops, iPhones, accessories, etc.). I'm down to one last Apple laptop now... Yes, a fateful Macbook Pro. But no more. Almost free of that "ecosystem" trap.