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I think one is going to say it's good or bad in function of the warranty coverage: any minor fix is expensive, so if you're in you enjoy that Apple pays for it; if you're out...

I have a Mid-2015 MBP, bought exactly four years ago. The battery is at 57% of health, which means still 90 minutes more or less (of course it depends on the usage). It's still useful, but I started thinking of replacing it. The lockdown made me postpone the decision, because so far I only worked remotely. I'll probably have it replaced the next month. They will charge me 250€ because replacing the battery implies replacing the whole cover, including the keyboard and the touchpad. Not being covered by warranty, I'm not happy - but it's not a big expense.

What puzzles me is the overall quality of Apple hardware. The battery degradation is normal, but I also experienced a touchpad haptic feedback failure a couple of years ago. Now, one could say: with 250€ I'm going to change also the touchpad, so my laptop is going to be totally renewed. While 4 years of life is my target for a laptop (never reached by Apple stuff so far), I'm thinking of extending it for 2 more years and reach the moment of the ARM switch. It could work, because I was successful in replacing the internal SSD to 2TB and there's plenty of disk space.

Unfortunately one month ago the anti-glare of the screen started coming off. This is *really* annoying. I didn't know, but it looks it's not an uncommon problem. Well, this stuff shouldn't happen.