As AI customers race away with DRAM orders to fuel the ongoing crisis, customers and companies alike would adopt smarter ways to preserve existing computers and hardware so that they would be put to better use instead of landing in an e-waste pile. However, a former employee claims that a technology company he worked for isn’t following any of these procedures and is destroying highly capable MacBook Pro models equipped with 48GB of unified memory.
Getting rid of a completely functional MacBook Pro in the middle of the DRAM crisis is absurd, but Redditor “ExtensionPut2939” says a large technology firm is closing its office in an unspecified country following the final layoff round, after which it’ll proceed to destroy more than 100 MacBook Pro units.
What’s puzzling about this act is that these aren’t ancient portable Macs that were destined for an e-waste site, but quite capable machines equipped with Apple’s M4. What’s even more appalling is that each of these MacBook Pro models was equipped with an impressive 48GB unified RAM. Considering that Apple recently introduced a price hike on various Macs , a far better alternative would be to donate these Macs to the employees who were laid off.
The Redditor believes there was no reason to put the pile of MacBook Pro units on the chopping block, especially since there was no security risk that couldn’t be mitigated by securely wiping their SSDs. One individual has stated that the company’s move would serve as a tax write-off as a loss against the layoff.
Even now, if you configure the M5 MacBook Pro to the same 48GB unified RAM, you’ll have to first upgrade it to the M5 Pro, then move to the aforementioned memory count. That’s going from $1,999 to $3,099 for just two specification changes. While what this firm did won’t be appreciated by the masses, especially when a decent laptop is hard to come by at an affordable price, we should all play our part by preserving hardware for as long as possible instead of dumping it away.
News Source: Reddit
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