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Ifixit focuses on some weird criteria. Like pentalobe screws are annoying but not a real impediment to repair. Soldered NAND is a wear item and a WAY bigger dea
by throwaway48476 3y ago
Ifixit focuses on some weird criteria. Like pentalobe screws are annoying but not a real impediment to repair. Soldered NAND is a wear item and a WAY bigger deal.
- cjk2 3y agoiFixit are a business. They are driven on attention and sales. Not facts. Although some of the time they overlap.
- throwaway48476 3y agoI'm not going to denigrate them for being a business. They've done more for repairability and sustainability than most. Repairability is a process not a factual end state, there are tradeoffs in design.
- cjk2 3y agoI will because their own products aren’t particularly good and their assessment of repairability on some products, as evidenced here, is likely biased by business relations. I do a lot of repair work (ex EE / production engineer) and I’ve been shot by poor parts and tools from them. I look elsewhere first.
- throwaway48476 3y agoWhat I believe you are referring to is that most of the ifixit branded parts are white label with commensurate quality. This is not really a unique problem. Almost everything on Amazon/aliexpress is the same white label junk. Buying brand name parts sometimes implys a brand name level of QC but its increasingly not the case. As for ifixit I would treat the products sold in partnership with the OEM differently from the ifixit brand ones.
- cjk2 3y agoAgree on all points. However sometimes the OEM branded parts are bundled in packs with iFixit tools. Notably with the Pixel parts as an example. Honestly I'd rather go direct to vendor for parts or service and decent turnaround and there's only one that offers this I can name.
- throwaway48476 3y agoIdeally OEMs are best able to provide parts and service. The problem is too many have abused their position to restrict consumer choice. As long as parts and manuals are available to the user I've no problem with choice. The free market keeps everyone honest. The problem is we have too many captured markets. I have a furnace yet as a user I'm not even allowed to see the manual. The HVAC people lobbied the EPA to make it hard for anyone but them to work on furnaces.
- bzzzt 3y ago> Soldered NAND is a wear item and a WAY bigger deal. "Citation needed". For anything resembling normal usage an SSD will last well beyond the economic lifetime of the rest of the components surrounding it. So why is it that big a deal to replace it?
- cjk2 3y agoI don't think anyone has worked this out yet. Literally 99% of laptops out there die and/or are recycled with the stock configuration. The first thing to go are the ports, batteries, screens, keyboards. I haven't seen an SSD failure in a decade now and we have thousands of them in production and on people's laptops.
- rezaprima 3y agoMy Macbook Air 2015's SSD failed and I had it replaced. And at the same time had its battery replaced for the second time.
- jerzmacow 3y agoI'm sure my usage would be excessive compared to a normal user, but I find SSDs last 2-3 years on average. I buy Samsung, perhaps that's the real issue
- throwaway48476 3y agoThe problem is that there is no "normal usage" for a general purpose PC. It will run any software you want. I had a hyper-v bug that thrashed one of my SSD's and when the M1 launches they had a swap bug that thrashed them as well. The reality is that if something is a wear item a non zero part of the population will wear it out. To toss a perfectly good logic board for a suicidal SSD is absurdity.