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MacBook used to be largely repairable, upgradable things. If too many tabs slowed down macOS, you could add more RAM; if you ran out of storage, you could install a larger hard drive; if the battery was old, you could easily replace it. But as Apple—and the industry at large—chased thinner and sleeker designs, laptops in general became harder to work on. Companies started soldering all components together onto the board, which made it possible to produce thin and light machines, but made it impossible to upgrade them, and wildly impractical to repair.
This hasn’t changed all that much in the Apple silicon era. While Apple’s modern MacBooks have some serious staying power and offer a lot of value for the money, they aren’t easy to fix. Far from it, actually. Take the M5 MacBook Pro: When iFixit took a look at
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