For Dell, the customer is corporate Information Technology departments and accountants. Most of their end-user kit is minimum viable brick for business use: if it isn't in the box, it can't break. I find their engineering impressive.
Apple tells corporate IT to get out of the way of their customers, the users. Thus repairing their stuff is a nightmare.
(My laptop is an M1 MacBook Air. My servers are off-lease salvage Dell or Intel OEM hardware.)
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For Dell, the customer is corporate Information Technology departments and accountants. Most of their end-user kit is minimum viable brick for business use: if it isn't in the box, it can't break. I find their engineering impressive.
Apple tells corporate IT to get out of the way of their customers, the users. Thus repairing their stuff is a nightmare.
(My laptop is an M1 MacBook Air. My servers are off-lease salvage Dell or Intel OEM hardware.)
If I close my laptop, put it in a backpack, and it comes out hot like a bun out of the oven, I don't consider that a minimum viable solution.