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> All products from HP, IBM/Lenovo, Apple and others have these instructions. The matter is not presence but availability to consumer. I think this is unfair,
by AshamedCaptain 4y ago
> All products from HP, IBM/Lenovo, Apple and others have these instructions. The matter is not presence but availability to consumer.
I think this is unfair, because precisely what the OP is saying is that in e.g. Lenovo products these instructions have been readily available for customers, sometimes even in the very product manual itself. I have an HP tablet from around 5 years ago where the disassembly instructions came with the printed manual. Also, it requires about 3 tools only, all of which are so standard that except for a suction cap I think they are almost in every household. Compare to this teardown of a much thicker laptop... even for replacing just the battery, I wouldn't have the tools, much less the balls to do it. It's not a surprise that iFixit still gives them a rather low "5" score.
- bayindirh 4y agoI don't think I'm being unfair to OP, because I'm not putting a counterargument on the table. I just say that these guides are always produced, but not generally made available to consumers, and that's bad. I wish every electronic equipment is shipped with a User's Guide and Service Manual out of the factory. However, both to protect service businesses and due to more integrated nature of newer devices, self-service is becoming more impractical every day. Hope right to repair changes that for the better. Also, there was an Ask HN about "Declination of Everything", and people objected vehemently. Why we are having this debate now, if nothing is declining?
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