[schmidtleonard]

I've seen a few Rossman streams with officially "refurbished" macbooks that were absolutely foul inside. Boards that looked like they had been left on a preheater over lunch, rubber wedges to "cure" a cracked joint, all sorts of awful shit. The leaked stories from the sweatshop that did the work were 100% consistent with the awful quality.

Admittedly this was a few years ago. Has apple mended their ways or are they still on the "used car salesman" grindset?

[sgerenser]

Are these Apple refurbished, or bought from a third party like Best Buy or Amazon? I’ve bought plenty of Apple refurbished products (directly from Apple) over the years and they always look like new (including 100% battery health).

Third parties and resellers though I’m convinced just call their returns/open box units that appear to be in decent condition “refurbished.”