[Kozmik1]

Try one of the following on your Macbook: - replace a battery - upgrade the memory or SSD/NVME - get your data off a Macbook whose motherboard has died

In other words, do any of the common repairs. To spend top dollar for a laptop and not be able to do repairs is rubbish: intentional planned obsolescence and vendor lock-in IMO.

[idontpost]

That has nothing to do with hardware quality.

Can you answer without moving the goal posts?

[samatman]

Of course they can't.

The narcissistic tendency to conflate consumer preference with quality (or moral weight) is drearily common on HN these days.

We get it, you have a fetish for replacing RAM (but seem to have forgotten that CPUs can also be replaced, oops your computer can't do that? soldered it to the mainboard? rubbish).