> A lot of people would be pissed to have MacBooks with worse "build quality" even if they were more reparable.

It is not a given that being repairable results in worse build quality.

It is a given if someone could have made a superior product in the last 15 years, i.e. more repairable laptop with higher build quality, they would have.

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swiftcoder 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

> It is a given if someone could have made a superior product in the last 15 years, i.e. more repairable laptop with higher build quality, they would have.

Most of the PC competitors of the last 15 years have struggled to even come close to achieving similar build quality.

I'm not sure who this mythical competitor could be, who is supposed to not only match unibody aluminium MacBook build quality, but also solve repairability, and come in with a final product that is cheaper?

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dwaltrip a day ago | parent | prev [-]

It kind of sounds like you are saying it is impossible to improve on the current state of the world.

That if it was possible to improve things, someone would have already done it. And they haven’t, so it must not be possible.

That feels a bit extreme… Maybe I’m misunderstanding?

	▲	lotsofpulp a day ago \| parent [-]
		No, it is certainly possible to come up with an innovation that allows progress. But the tone I get from discussions about repairability and performance is that it would be trivial to make the device, if only businesses wanted to. However, given the fact that it hasn’t happened yet from a variety of alternative manufacturers, the probability seems very low that the ideal device is possible with current technology at a price that is viable. Basically, it is a competitive market (or was), and what won out was what was possible. Barring some leap in technology, it is unrealistic to assume we can do better without suffering tradeoffs.