Genius Bar says it'll cost $1200 to fix MacBook. Third-party repairman replaces worn $35 cable

Sheesh, c’mon. I’ve used Macs since the 90’s and have two that I use every day. It’s not a matter of taste, the new Apple laptops are nowhere near as good as they were. The new keyboards are absolutely unusable from a tactility standpoint, and professionally I see them fail far more often than everything except some of the Surface models.

The aesthetics do not make up for the loss in functionality. I don’t care how thin or light the thing is if it can be rendered unusuable by dust and is almost completely unrepairable.

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