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Honestly, like 95% of people. Practically, even if Microsoft did want to make the device disassemble friendly and was even willing to spend the engineering dol

Honestly, like 95% of people. Practically, even if Microsoft did want to make the device disassemble friendly and was even willing to spend the engineering dollars to make that happen, I think they'd be turned away by the fact making a "polished" device that's easily disassembleable would increase failure rates. The bonded materials greatly increase strength over a set of spaced screws/latches into thin material.

jermaustin1 9y ago
I'm the 95%! Honestly, if something is going to take me more than 10 minutes to do, and the risk of breaking something is higher than none, I'm of the mindset to either pay to have a professional fix it (or break it for free), or rip out the hard drive and buy a new laptop. All these higher end laptops all come with pretty decent warranties so for a couple hundred bucks you get it either repaired or swapped out. Then again, I'm a tone deaf American with a large amount of disposable income...
- abawany 9y ago
  I am proudly of the '5%'. Some things I have done include: Thinkpad (some ancient Pentium-133 model) motherboard (30 min), Fujitsu T4020 fan (4 hours), Fujitsu T4200 SSD (2x, 10min max each), various hard drives, HP Pavilion 17 fan (3 hours), Motion M1400 memory and hard drive (converted to a PATA SSD after much research, 30min), and the M.2 SSD on my HP Elite X2. The fan replacements in particular were not fun but it seemed wrong to throw them away for something as basic as a $11 fan (buried in the internals as it was), which is why my current laptop (Elite X2) has no moving parts whatsoever.
- swiley 9y ago
  Sometimes you really don't want to wait for a professional.
imchillyb 9y ago
> Honestly, like 95% of people... @Raidion If you have to use the word /honestly/ in your communications, this leads readers to believe that the remainder of your information is falsehoods. Also, please link to the studies & polls that show %95 of users do not want serviceable, fixable, or user upgradeable laptops. I doubt the veracity of your claim.
izacus 9y ago
95% wouldn't want to repair their 1 year old (default warranty) mac if it breaks? What kind of bubble are you living in?

jermaustin1 9y ago

I'm the 95%! Honestly, if something is going to take me more than 10 minutes to do, and the risk of breaking something is higher than none, I'm of the mindset to either pay to have a professional fix it (or break it for free), or rip out the hard drive and buy a new laptop. All these higher end laptops all come with pretty decent warranties so for a couple hundred bucks you get it either repaired or swapped out. Then again, I'm a tone deaf American with a large amount of disposable income...

abawany 9y ago
I am proudly of the '5%'. Some things I have done include: Thinkpad (some ancient Pentium-133 model) motherboard (30 min), Fujitsu T4020 fan (4 hours), Fujitsu T4200 SSD (2x, 10min max each), various hard drives, HP Pavilion 17 fan (3 hours), Motion M1400 memory and hard drive (converted to a PATA SSD after much research, 30min), and the M.2 SSD on my HP Elite X2. The fan replacements in particular were not fun but it seemed wrong to throw them away for something as basic as a $11 fan (buried in the internals as it was), which is why my current laptop (Elite X2) has no moving parts whatsoever.
swiley 9y ago
Sometimes you really don't want to wait for a professional.

imchillyb 9y ago

> Honestly, like 95% of people... @Raidion If you have to use the word /honestly/ in your communications, this leads readers to believe that the remainder of your information is falsehoods. Also, please link to the studies & polls that show %95 of users do not want serviceable, fixable, or user upgradeable laptops. I doubt the veracity of your claim.

izacus 9y ago

95% wouldn't want to repair their 1 year old (default warranty) mac if it breaks? What kind of bubble are you living in?