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It does not make sense to praise a company for selling defective products because some of the customers have the ability to repair the defect.

• yellowapple 1y ago
  It's a massive step up from the status quo of companies selling defective products without customers having the ability to repair the defect.
  • simpaticoder 1y ago
    Well then, you live in the best of worlds because every laptop is repairable even at the chip level or individual capacitor/resistor/connector level. All you need is a workshop, a multimeter, oscilloscope, probes, a hot air gun, a microscope, a variety of soldering tools, a variety of solder, solder mask, access to schematics and donor boards, and a lifetime of experience. Here's a guy who repairs Dell laptops all day every day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDsP1--ttQc https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vDsP1--ttQc
    • yellowapple 1y ago
      That's all a massive step beyond "order a free part from the vendor with instructions on how to solder it on yourself".