https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/macbook-self-repair-program-highlights-apples-flawed-repairability-progress/

On Tuesday, Apple expanded its self-service repair program to M1-based MacBooks. Giving customers repair manuals and the ability to buy parts and buy or rent tools for M1 MacBook Airs and M1 MacBook Pros is a far cry from the Apple of yesteryear. But after a few days of availability, the MacBook self-repair program shows welcome progress, but work is required before Apple is considered a true right-to-repair ally.

The past few days have seen numerous right-to-repair activists critique Apple's MacBook self-repair program. Perhaps most notable is a strongly worded blog from iFixit, which said the program "manages to make MacBooks seem less repairable." While iFixit found the MacBook Air repair manual to be "in-depth, mostly logical, and well worth an additional repairability point," it was less impressed with the MacBook Pro repair manuals.