[johncolanduoni]

> They seem to intentionally sabotage the wire that connects the harddrive to the board on macbook pros in order to force you to upgrade.

You mean to prevent you from changing it? Recent MacBooks don't have SATA (instead opting for SSD chips straight on the board with NVMe), but I had one of the last models with a magnetic drive option and I put in a standard SATA SSD with no problem.

[freehunter]

Comments like that are typical from people who have a career repairing or building PCs, I know quite a few desktop support guys who are of the opinion that if you didn't build it yourself, the company you bought it from sabotaged something. Only home built computers can be trusted to be reliable.

The problem is, in their line of work they only ever see the broken computers. So it kind of taints their view point.