<story><title>CT scans of AirPods evolution</title><url>https://scanofthemonth.com/airpods</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kiwijamo</author><text>Funnily enough the exact same thing happened to my work Macbook. Display just stopped working one day. Work sent it back to Apple to repair which took them a few weeks.&lt;p&gt;I once owned a iBook (back in the PowerPC days) that had to go back to Apple on no less than four different occasions to fix faults. All repaired under AppleCare as I fortunately had the foresight to pay for it at the time of purchase.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve also owned other brands of laptops and I&amp;#x27;ve not had any with the amount nor the severity of faults I&amp;#x27;ve observed on Apple laptops.&lt;p&gt;I write this on my own ex-lease Lenovo X1 Carbon which has survived a 1m drop with a corner hitting a hard surface. Thankfully the only issue is the occasional black&amp;#x2F;darkening of an area of pixels on the lower-right corner of the LCD. I can 100% guarantee if it was a Macbook it would have been the end of it, no question whatsoever (given I&amp;#x27;ve seen Macbook die from much less impact).</text></item><item><author>elzbardico</author><text>This is still the strongest apple advantage: design, engineering and build quality.&lt;p&gt;Recently I wanted to buy a second notebook so I could leave my MBPro at home in trips where I didn&amp;#x27;t want to work, but still had a machine that run linux and windows for some quick idea or even some light gaming.&lt;p&gt;Decided for a Samsung Galaxy Book Pro. Expensive machine, but slightly cheaper than a MacBook Air. good i7 11gen processor, excellent battery life, very light but with surprisingly good thermals, 1tb SSD, but unfortunately no option to have it with more than 16GB RAM.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, was very satisfied with it, and it was so light that I was even booting it with linux and doing some programming on it.&lt;p&gt;But, one day I just opened the lid by the sides, heard a crack, and the gorgeous OLED screen had cracked.&lt;p&gt;Of course I didnt abuse it, I just opened it, without excessive force or speed. But the screen is very fragile, the lid is paper thin, but not rigid enough, it seems, to avoid this problem.&lt;p&gt;And of course, Samsung says it was my fault, and I will have to pay the fix.&lt;p&gt;And yes, I know people have plenty of complaints about apple, but I never had encountered such an obvious problem with an Apple product. Have they not stress-tested this stuff?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>hultner</author><text>Actually for further anecdata I’ve dropped several of my MacBook Pros (unibody) from a meter or more, one open from a ladder bumping pretty hard to a few of the bottom steps. And I’ve never gotten more then scratches and bumps in the casing. Additionally I’ve never had Apple Care and the times I’ve had problems Apple have always repaired it free of charge under warranty, including a full battery replacement on my Retina MacBook Pro when it was 3 years old and got the battery service warning.&lt;p&gt;I’ve had the hinge of my old ThinkPad crack after about a year of normal use and been told it’s my fault. I’ve also had multiple screens go bad on my old HP Entreprise laptop&amp;#x2F;mobile workstation. Both of these laptops were more expensive then all the MacBooks I owned prior to them.</text></comment>
<story><title>CT scans of AirPods evolution</title><url>https://scanofthemonth.com/airpods</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>kiwijamo</author><text>Funnily enough the exact same thing happened to my work Macbook. Display just stopped working one day. Work sent it back to Apple to repair which took them a few weeks.&lt;p&gt;I once owned a iBook (back in the PowerPC days) that had to go back to Apple on no less than four different occasions to fix faults. All repaired under AppleCare as I fortunately had the foresight to pay for it at the time of purchase.&lt;p&gt;I&amp;#x27;ve also owned other brands of laptops and I&amp;#x27;ve not had any with the amount nor the severity of faults I&amp;#x27;ve observed on Apple laptops.&lt;p&gt;I write this on my own ex-lease Lenovo X1 Carbon which has survived a 1m drop with a corner hitting a hard surface. Thankfully the only issue is the occasional black&amp;#x2F;darkening of an area of pixels on the lower-right corner of the LCD. I can 100% guarantee if it was a Macbook it would have been the end of it, no question whatsoever (given I&amp;#x27;ve seen Macbook die from much less impact).</text></item><item><author>elzbardico</author><text>This is still the strongest apple advantage: design, engineering and build quality.&lt;p&gt;Recently I wanted to buy a second notebook so I could leave my MBPro at home in trips where I didn&amp;#x27;t want to work, but still had a machine that run linux and windows for some quick idea or even some light gaming.&lt;p&gt;Decided for a Samsung Galaxy Book Pro. Expensive machine, but slightly cheaper than a MacBook Air. good i7 11gen processor, excellent battery life, very light but with surprisingly good thermals, 1tb SSD, but unfortunately no option to have it with more than 16GB RAM.&lt;p&gt;Anyway, was very satisfied with it, and it was so light that I was even booting it with linux and doing some programming on it.&lt;p&gt;But, one day I just opened the lid by the sides, heard a crack, and the gorgeous OLED screen had cracked.&lt;p&gt;Of course I didnt abuse it, I just opened it, without excessive force or speed. But the screen is very fragile, the lid is paper thin, but not rigid enough, it seems, to avoid this problem.&lt;p&gt;And of course, Samsung says it was my fault, and I will have to pay the fix.&lt;p&gt;And yes, I know people have plenty of complaints about apple, but I never had encountered such an obvious problem with an Apple product. Have they not stress-tested this stuff?</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>sundvor</author><text>The engineering of the X1 Carbon is amazing. Durability is a design goal, it even has channels for directing liquid ingress away from the most vulnerable parts. Whilst not a guarantee against failures, it certainly doesn&amp;#x27;t hurt!&lt;p&gt;My own OG X1 Carbon (i7&amp;#x2F;8&amp;#x2F;256) still works today, and, amazingly, receives firmware updates. It is 9 years old.</text></comment>