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> Only a tiny percentage of laptops are ever upgraded.

What about batteries, they're basically consumables.

I still remember a friend of mine breaking a single usb port on his macbook, he had to change half the components, the bill was something like $1.5k for a $2k macbook.



Yes, batteries are probably the biggest issue, because they deteriorate.

On all the retinas you have to separate them from the chassis using a thread (something like a fishing line). It's not too hard to do, but it's not fun neither.


My 2013 13" is still at over 80% design battery capacity.




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