Last time I was going to change an internal part in an Apple laptop I needed a heat gun and some very strange dismantling Maharg It is still rare to find a soldered CPU and as you are talking about Apples here then we should ignore the bottom of the range Windows Laptops so we have a fair comparison of like for like. You have to ignore the cheapest, bottom range laptop as these cut price corners and start using integrated soldered in graphics and CPUs. Similar with CPUs - the higher up the range the more swappable a CPU is. I've often swapped these for clients, but that tends to require a few more screws to be handled on the back. The more expensive laptops have experimented with swappable graphics boards. Bluetooth similar (as this is often part of the WiFi card anyway). Usually accessible via simple screw access panels on the back. I assume you have never looked inside a laptop then? WiFi is always on an swappable board. good luck trying to 'upgrade' your integrated graphics chip, or the soldered on wifi, or maybe the bluetooth chippery could do with a boost. Right, because Windows laptops get upgraded all the time. The remainder are not considered a threat at all.Ĭompare that to the hundreds of thousands of pieces of malware for Windows, including viruses.
Users who did not enable Java were not affected, and Apple slammed the door on that threat with a Software Update anyway, so unless you have been living under a proverbial rock it is not a threat. That makes the responsibility Oracle's, not Apple's. It was the "Flashback" TROJAN that affected Macs NOT through the OS, but through a clever Java exploit. The one possible exception to this was NOT a virus. You can reduce this "very low" risk to zero by not downloading torrents or allowing unknown apps access to your computer by thoughtlessly supplying your user name and password just because a popup unexpectedly requested them. For half of those the actual risk of any sort of damage is considered "very low." The reason is that most of those are found on illegal file-sharing sites offering pirated software.
There are about two dozen piece of malware that affect the Mac OS X. Your claim that the Mac OS has viruses is simply false. If it wasn't your case is an exception to the rule.
If you had a firmware problem on your MBP during the warrantee, it should have been fixed quickly. Actually, Apple is regarded as one of the best companies for taking care of problems.