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>Small, Reliable, and Easy to Repair. Pick two. (A comment on the website discussing MS Surface devices)
by FridayoLeary 5y ago
>Small, Reliable, and Easy to Repair. Pick two.
(A comment on the website discussing MS Surface devices)
- eggy 5y agoI had thought repairing modern electronic devices was going to be near impossible coming from my early experiences in the 1970s, and although a lot of the repairs involve swapping a card or whole board, others are simply board-level repairs of blown capacitors, bad connectors, like charging ports, and such on things like iPads. I now have a complete microelectronics setup and I have repaired a bunch of stuff. It's my hobby, not business. The real block is access to schematics and parts. Apple doesn't release schematics legally for purchase until they are a few generations behind, so fixers buy illegal copies. Non-standard parts, like custom chips, are also controlled or not easy to find. I primarily setup my microelectronics bench to make my own stuff, not repair stuff. I owned my first cheap microscope in 1972, but my workbench scope has opened up a whole other world for me.
- dTal 5y agoI dunno, Lenovo managed to make a very competent Surface Pro competitor in the X1 Tablet 2nd gen - and yet despite its svelte construction, it unscrews, and within you will find a removable M.2 SSD. I don't really buy this notion that repairability is a necessary sacrifice on the altar of portability. Sure, sometimes you have to solder components that it would be nice to have socketed - but there's no excuse for gluing things together so you can't even change the battery. Screws aren't any thicker than glue.