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Discussion on: The M1 Mac - Is it worth it for devs?

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Bartosz Wójcik

This is waste of time and money. It's unrepairable (you won't be able to replace SSD, it's soldered to the board haha). It's completely new architecture.

youtube.com/watch?v=u7LOljirF6g

Plus I don't support company that uses cheap work labor from China (it's well documented over the years):

cnsnews.com/commentary/terence-p-j...

How much do you make? Read how much chinese workers make building your macs:

"Apple and Foxconn both said this issue has been corrected. Most factory workers are paid about 4,000 yuan ($562) a month, one CLW investigator found. After taxes and mandatory fees, they get roughly 3,000 yuan a month, according to the CLW report"

fortune.com/2019/09/09/apple-admit...

They make 463 USD per month so you can walk proudly with a new mac book...

16 GB of ram in 2021 is just hmm... try 64 GB next time :), RAM is cheap.

Every new AMD Ryzen 3 CPU will beat M1 in terms of performance.

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Alexandru-Dan Pop • Edited

Yep, I updated the Things to consider section with the SSD tear rumors.

Mine is still at 0% used after 1 month.

I am not completely sold of on the idea that only Apple does profit on cheap labor. I think most hardware manufacturers do, unfortunately, so you need to consider this for all hardware you buy and probably most other things you buy.

Also, consider that the evolution in robotics manufacturing will slowly take over the manual labor over time.

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Bartosz Wójcik

It's not about SSD tear, but about the design of the hardware, to make it hard to replace parts, I can't imagine I cannot replace my own faulty hard drive to any other brand I wish.

Louis Rossmann also said he is unable to fix any new macs until 1-2 years, when he is finally able to get his hands on the unofficial schematics, and Apple is known for making things harder to independent repair shops to fix the macs for half the price they take.

Apple forbids manufacturers to sell replacement chips from their boards to anyone else than Apple:

youtu.be/lTpHa70DDX0?t=216

This company is not consumer, nor developer-friendly, they charge 30% off every app sold on their closed platform, keeping away everyone else and banning companies that tried to get payment some other way (Fortnite).

bbc.com/news/technology-55678496