The reassuringly expensive brand is hardly alone in building hardware deemed hard to mend, and in the pursurt of slimmer and lighter devices, the company's engineers have - at times - been a little too liberal with the glue and difficult-to-find screws.

The new M4 MacBook Pro, while boasting some quality-of-life updates, appears to remain nearly identical to its predecessor when it comes to internal design.

While the new M4 MacBook Pros got a number of sweet quality of life upgrades, the new MacBooks looked about the same externally, except for the M4 MacBook Pro gaining an additional Thunderbolt port over the M3 model, something that the M3 Pro/M3 Max models already had.

The website is famous for taking apart hardware and rating it in terms of design and repairability considerations, and iFixit begins its video teardown by underlining just how much smaller the new Mac mini is compared to the computer in the past.

We heard early reports about the Mac mini’s SSD being upgradeable and the iFixit video provides more info. The M4 and M4 Pro Mac minis use modules of different sizes and iFixit couldn’t get its Mac mini to work when they tried swapping the SSDs.

The more time I spend with the M4 MacBook Pro, the more I think it’s one of Apple’s most interesting updates in years. That’s saying a lot for an update that—on the surface—looks mostly like a spec bump.

For the first time in nearly a decade, Apple is able to repair individual MacBook Pro speakers without replacing other components too. In a