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How consistent are ifixit repair scores? I find it's hard to predict the score. There's a "reviewer effect" common to many tech reviews where scores tend to be
by tedunangst 2y ago
How consistent are ifixit repair scores? I find it's hard to predict the score. There's a "reviewer effect" common to many tech reviews where scores tend to be relative to whatever previous device was just reviewed.
- inhumantsar 2y agothey're pretty consistent. unlike most tech reviews, there's things which have to be present to be considered repairable. eg: is everything glued down? are screws accessible? are there a bunch of different screws with obscure heads? is there a publicly available repair manual? etc. also iirc their scores are determined by committee rather than a single individual
- tedunangst 2y agoOkay, I would have figured 8/10 is impossibly high for fixed ram.
- samtho 2y agoThe score is not a qualitative measure on how serviceable a product is compared to it’s peers, rather, the score reflects how simple it is to service items that are able to be serviced. If the ram is not swappable, it’s simply not counted in the score as it’s integrated with the main board.
- __MatrixMan__ 2y agoI have here, a brick. It has won 100% of the swimming races that it has participated in. It is therefore a very good swimmer.
- noahtallen 2y agoNot sure this is true — then every device by definition gets a high score, singe the display or batter is simply “not able to be serviced” on devices with poor repairability.
- jimbobthrowawy 2y agoThey have also gone back and changed scores in light of more recent information. Like parts-pairing in more recent iphones decreasing its score months after the initial review came out, despite the part seeming easy to swap. I appreciate that.
- GeekyBear 2y agoGiving systems with the RAM soldered to the motherboard an 8 out of 10 repairability score makes no sense.
- baq 2y agoIt’s repairability not upgradability.
- knallfrosch 2y agoThat depends on how reliable RAMs are, no? What if the CPU fails more often than the RAM and you can't replace that?
- GeekyBear 2y agoThese systems have the CPU soldered to the motherboard in addition to having soldered RAM.
- bzzzt 2y agoIt’s quite rare to have bad memory, especially when not using an overclocked gaming machine. Most memory troubleshooting guides start with reseating the modules which means it’s not the memory that’s bad but the connector. Getting rid of the connector could mean it’s even more reliable. There’s no point in making stuff interchangeable if it almost never breaks. We don’t have the L2 cache on a module anymore like with the old pentiums. And nobody seems to have a problem with throwing away good memory chips when just one on a DIMM module fails…