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I feel the same way and I was in the process of buying the new Mac Mini but then decided against it. There's so much similarities between macOS and Linux it's not funny and Linux as an open source OS is even more secure than macOS. Thankfully for me when my 2012 Mini is no longer supported it will be converted to a Linux box.

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Some say well all you have to do is add an external SSD to the 2018 Mini and my answer is why? Why do I have to spend even more money to because Apple decided to cripple the Mac Mini on purpose for financial reasons? There are tons of micro PC's out now that are just as small or smaller as the Mac Mini that allow you to easily upgrade the RAM or swap out the blade SSD stick if it fails at a much cheaper costs. I have no worries regarding any of that with my 2012 Mac Mini because I can easily upgrade the RAM or replace the SSD. The worse part is that the SSD is soldered to the motherboard so if either the T2 Controller Chip or the soldered SSD fails (finite amount of writes) that's an expensive motherboard replacement. I can jump to the i5 with a 6 core CPU and 256GB SSD for $1,100. The base model is crippled with a 128GB SSD drive. This becomes further problematic if design forces major circuit board or subassembly replacement for failures of individual components (such as keyboards costing $400 to replace a $50 part, and with the 'flexgate' issue costing $700 to fix a $6 cable).Д¬lick to expand.I feel the same way and I was in the process of buying the new Mac Mini but then decided against it. This is especially a problem when the failures tend to happen after the warranty has expired, and for reasons beyond the customer's control with normal use. I'm not inclined to be so forgiving/accepting of that rate of failure for a laptop running 2-5 thousand dollars.

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For relatively cheap products, let's say a cheap PC running around $300 or less, I'm more likely to accept such a failure rate as an acceptable risk for price paid. So doing the math, 1% is about 180000, and. I couldn't find sales estimates for MBP's, but total Mac sales for 2018 looks to be roughly 18 million. 1% of the product is demonstrably defective the manufacturer should offer repair or replacement for a reasonable price. It has happened enough times to make me likely not to risk $2000+ on my getting one of the lemons. Good luck, and yes, Godspeed with your continued Apple bliss. Hopefully, you will continue to be pleased with Apple design decisions and QC issues as they pertain to you. Apple design issues have pushed me away from the phones and the iPads currently produced, and QC problems and lack of ports have done the same with the Macbook Pro line. I continue to follow this forum in hopes of finding positive changes by Apple to address the issues of the last several years, and I still have an iPhone 6s+, a 2017 iPad Pro 12, and a 2017 iMac. Sure, not all of the macbooks have these issues, but the failure rate is significant enough to make me wary of purchase. I don't want to pay $700 to fix a $6 cable, or $400 to replace a butterfly keyboard. I will not risk paying thousands of dollars on a laptop with unreliable keyboards and displays, cooling/throttling issues with high performance cpu's, and expensive repairs dictated by poor repairability designs. After my personal disappointments, I have come to take experiences of others with Apple product problems a lot more seriously. I actually find Linux to be kind of fun to tinker with these days, and on PC laptops of increasingly exceptional quality.

Over the past several years I have been on the receiving end of Apple design decisions and price points which led me to 'courageously move forward' with other laptops and phones. Click to expand.That would have been my philosophy until I no longer had the experience you describe.