And buy a PC/Windows box. I guess this is for people who envy the ability of Apple users to be charged 3 or 4 times what the machine is worth, but still want to run Windows.
Yes that was a generalization that doesn't cover every case but what he's "going on about" is that if the CPU, GPU, RAM, storage, camera (in a phone), breaks then you have replace the whole lot because they aren't individually repairable like they have been typically in the past. And yes, there are some exceptions.
Of course the miniaturization means that if you're talking about throwing away other components when one of them dies the e-waste problem is very different comparing an SoC to a traditional component system. The issue though is with things like memory upgrades and storage upgrades, the fact that if I want to upgrade the memory or storage on my M1 Mac I have to completely replace it is pretty poor. Or the old iMacs I have that are unsupported where the displays are still fantastic but now they're pretty useless chunks of ewaste. There is a way that you can use them as an external display if you have the right active converter from HDMI to miniDP but you're still running the PC inside it and still have to have a keyboard connected so you can hit CMD+F2 to switch it every time.
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So pretty much every modern laptop, gaming device, and cell phone?
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I had my iPhone 6 screen replaced by a guy at a mall kiosk. Don't know what you're going on about.
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Yes that was a generalization that doesn't cover every case but what he's "going on about" is that if the CPU, GPU, RAM, storage, camera (in a phone), breaks then you have replace the whole lot because they aren't individually repairable like they have been typically in the past. And yes, there are some exceptions.
Of course the miniaturization means that if you're talking about throwing away other components when one of them dies the e-waste problem is very different comparing an SoC to a traditional component system. The issue though is with things like memory upgrades and storage upgrades, the fact that if I want to upgrade the memory or storage on my M1 Mac I have to completely replace it is pretty poor. Or the old iMacs I have that are unsupported where the displays are still fantastic but now they're pretty useless chunks of ewaste. There is a way that you can use them as an external display if you have the right active converter from HDMI to miniDP but you're still running the PC inside it and still have to have a keyboard connected so you can hit CMD+F2 to switch it every time.