The guys at iFixit are in charge of examining and disassembling all the electronic products that reach the market every year to the smallest detail, to show users the repair possibilities they offer us in case we have a problem with them. For some time now, most manufacturers They use glue as one more tool in the manufacturing process, In order to try to reduce their dimensions as much as possible, in theory forced by user demand.
Many of us are users who agree that the thickness of an iPhone is adequate and that it is not necessary to reduce its size even more, but to increase the benefits it can offer us, whether in battery or other specifications. Greenpeace has published a report in which it laments about the few repair options that both the new iPad 2017 and MacBook in general have, where most of the components are soldered to the motherboard, which makes a quick and cheap repair impossible. .
Greenpeace has used iFixit data to create this report, a report in which the 13-inch MacBook Pro and MacBook Retina receive one point out of 10 possible. Both models they do not allow replacing the battery or the screen in a simple and obviously inexpensive way.
The iPad 2017 receives only one point more than the MacBook, placing it in a score of 2 out of 10. The only Apple product that does well is both the iPhone 7 and the iPhone 7 Plus, whose note is 7 out of 10 possible. If we take a look at the report, we see how the smartphone that offers the worst possibilities to repair it is still the Galaxy S7 Edge. While in the field of notebooks, the Mirosoft Surface Laptop.