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iFixit: Self Repair Program actually makes M1 MacBooks less
repairable

Jose Adorno

- Aug. 24th 2022 8:19 am PT

@joseadorno

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At the beginning of the week, Apple expanded its Self Service Repair
program to M1 MacBook models. The program offers "repair manuals and
genuine Apple parts and tools" with "more than a dozen different
repair types for each model, including the display, top case with
battery, and trackpad, with more to come," but although it seems like
a step to the right direction, iFixit thinks Apple is making the M1
MacBook Air and M1 MacBook Pro, actually, less repairable.

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At first, iFixit praises the M1 MacBook Air service manuals by saying
"they're in-depth, mostly logical, and well worth an additional
repairability point," but when talking about the M1 MacBook Pro
guides, iFixit said they "threw us for a loop."

The publication talks about users' need to eventually replace the
MacBook battery since it suffers from natural degradation:

    Every other component is subject to environment and use (...) but
    battery replacement is inevitable. Batteries are consumable, and
    just like your tires, they're rated for a certain lifespan--heck,
    there's a battery health menu item that says this outright. It's
    a fact of our lithium-powered life.

And although this should be a simple task for the Self Service Repair
Program, it takes 162 pages for users to replace Mac's battery. The
problem highlighted by iFixit is that you can't just replace the
battery, but "Top Case with Battery and Keyboard," which means, the
entire product, basically.

Not only does it makes the process more expensive - more than $500 -
but it also makes it harder since it's a 162 pages steps. The
publication states:

    This time, along with the manuals, Apple is presenting DIY
    repairers with a excruciating gauntlet of hurdles: read 162 pages
    of documentation without getting intimidated and decide to do the
    repair anyway, pay an exorbitant amount of money for an overkill
    replacement part, decide whether you want to drop another 50
    bucks on the tools they recommend, and do the repair yourself
    within 14 days, including completing the System Configuration to
    pair your part with your device.  Which makes us wonder, does
    Apple even want better repairability?

iFixit even tries to look at the bright side by saying an upper case
note assembly notes that "in the future, a battery replacement part
will be available." While we don't have an official date, users will
have to make sure their MacBook Pro models are handled with care, or
they'll have to spend $199 to replace the battery with Apple.

You can read iFixit's full blog post here.

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