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What I Learned When I Changed The Battery for My MacBook (From the Least Tech Person Ever)
You don’t need to add to the tech waste mountain
He told me it only had three more days to live.
The guy on the Apple help chat mentioned there’s not much they can do today. Because my 2013 MacBook is a vintage model. Trade it in and buy a new one.
Wait, did he really say it may be better to buy a brand new laptop?
Back in the day, I would have been more desperate and got someone else to fix it. If they could not, then I probably would buy a new laptop.
This decade, I don’t want to add to the trash.
Half of the 50m tonnes of global trash are large household appliances, and heating and cooling equipment. The rest are TVs, computers, smartphones and tablets.
They call this planned obsolescence.
“Planned obsolescence describes a strategy of deliberately ensuring that the current version of a given product will become out of date or useless within a known time period. This proactive move guarantees that consumers will seek replacements in the future, thus bolstering demand.” — Investopedia
