27th 2023 4:46 am PTActivation Lock is condemning even 2020 Macs to a future as spare parts and landfill, by making it impossible for them to be restored to use. To be fair to Apple, the technology is only part of the problem – the other half is corporate policy in many companies that issue MacBooks to their employees – but it is an issue that only the Cupertino company can solve …For anyone unfamiliar with it, Activation Lock was Apple’s clever solution to a longstanding problem: the attractiveness of iPhones, iPads, and MacBooks to thieves. No system is perfect, but it does seem to me that this would still provide sufficient protection against theft, while at the same time ensuring that perfectly good 2020 Macs don’t end up as landfill