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I’m own a FW13 and I have bought ~4 for employees. I doubt I will order more. We’ve had small and large issues. My Linux machine will drain the battery comple
by SV_BubbleTime 10mo ago
I’m own a FW13 and I have bought ~4 for employees.
I doubt I will order more. We’ve had small and large issues.
My Linux machine will drain the battery completely if you don’t perform a full shutdown, and even then the quiescent drain is too high and I can expect it to be dead in a week.
The dream of repairability is great, but the reality just isn’t there.
That said, I was able to replace a damaged screen with no effort at all. A far cry from the MS Surface I had previously, but any vendor could sell a screen or keyboard without the “full modularity” that FW pushes.
- yaro330 10mo agoApparently Surface laptops come with stellar repair guides now, and they improved repairability greatly. MS doing something nice for once?
- SV_BubbleTime 10mo agoCounterpoint… the battery is superglued to the chassis and to replace for my model was STEP 53, and that was to scrape the old battery off and glue the new one in, then 53 steps backwards to re-assemble.
- yaro330 10mo agoSee for yourself: https://www.ifixit.com/News/96998/from-0-10-to-8-10-microsoft-puts-repair-front-and-center https://www.ifixit.com/News/96998/from-0-10-to-8-10-microsof...