Comment on Apple’s MacBook Pro memory problem is worse than ever
dpkonofa@lemmy.world 9 months agoThey disassemble those replacements and use them to create warranty parts. Apple is one of the few companies that actually does reduce and reuse first. Any parts that fail testing get recycled.
CmdrShepard@lemmy.one 9 months ago
They desolder components and reuse them or they scrap old laptops and scavenge the good bits like the screen and keyboard? Assuming someone brings in a laptop with a bad hard drive, what components later get disassembled?
dpkonofa@lemmy.world 9 months ago
All of them. They have machines that strip down the components:
elitedaily.com/…/heres-how-apple-recycles-old-iph…
This article is about the iPhone robots but they also have machines that do this with Macs too. Every Apple device is made with recycled content but the majority of their components are reused in remanufactured warranty devices (remanufactured rather than refurbished because refurbished reuses existing whole components, remanufacturing breaks down components, tests them, and reuses them to create entirely new components from working parts).