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From the article: "A torn membrane will result in a top case replacement." It seems ridiculous to me that a single torn membrane junks the entire top case, a $
by xnyan 8y ago
From the article: "A torn membrane will result in a top case replacement."
It seems ridiculous to me that a single torn membrane junks the entire top case, a $500-800 part.
- toast0 8y agoApple products are simply not designed to be serviceable. I have fond (ish) memories of Dell shipping me several $90 keyboard assemblies for my latitude, under warranty, when keys would start acting up; before requesting the third replacement, I noticed there was a bit of aluminum that just needed to get bent back to shape to fix the issues, and saved a bunch of hassle. But I'm not sure if anybody still makes laptops where they've used the space to made things modular enough for economical spare parts.
- 8draco8 8y agoI think Thinkpads are still pretty good at this although even they started to fall behind. I remember the days when Apple was designing hardware in a way that was allowing easy access to internals for a pro user. All those handles, easy access doors and trays sliding out with the internals, good old days.