Apple gets a lot of grief about its products being difficult to repair, but the company is showing a few signs of addressing the issue. The latest involves the MacBook Pro with Pro and Max chips. Apple now has available individual speaker parts for these laptops, which means that if the speakers break, they can be replaced without having to replace other components.
Macrumors reports that a memo distributed to Apple Stores and Apple Authorized Service Providers this week says Apple is offering standalone speaker repair parts for the first time in nearly a decade. This should make repairs easier to do, cutting down on service time and costs. In MacBook Pro models before Apple silicon, the whole top case of the MacBook Pro had to be replaced if a speaker needed repair. That meant that a customer had to pay for replacing parts that didn’t need to be replaced, which made the repair expensive.
Read more at Macworld.com