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I was responding to your mention of Chromebooks and how expensive you thought they would be to fix. And also because I thought it was interesting that these two
by wishfish 4y ago
I was responding to your mention of Chromebooks and how expensive you thought they would be to fix. And also because I thought it was interesting that these two very cheap gadgets were easily fixable. I guess since the main customers for these cheap laptops are schools, they'd have to be repairable. School budgets would almost mandate their hardware acquisitions be cheaply repairable instead of having to replace the entire unit. Especially when they hand these things out to accident prone kids.
But we don't have right to repair across the board. Would be nice if manufacturers took this into account.
- ericmay 4y agoTo nitpick a bit I was more so criticizing what I envision Google's support for repairing these devices to be. More from an infrastructure/customer support perspective. I did mention that these devices were inexpensive and I would guess that for most people they'd prefer to throw the device away instead of repair it given our current cultural climate. Now I do not have a lot of experience fixing devices, I tend to use and then either gift old devices to family members or recycle them, but I am curious about how much more repairable one of these devices is compared to, say, a new Macbook Pro. Also I wonder if current state is indicative of future state. For all we know Apple might make repair and upgrade of devices a top priority. Certainly they're showing some serious movement here in my opinion.