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PowerBook Disassembly Guide
kwiens writes "We've been slaving away for months to create the FixIt Guide Series-- a set of Free-As-In-Beer step by step PowerBook disassembly instructions. Maybe waiting another 6-18 months for those PowerBook G5's will be easier if you fix your old PowerBook now (or just use the Guides as a starting point for that killer PowerBook case mod). Guides are up now for the PowerBook G3 Wallstreet, Lombard, Pismo and Titanium PowerBook G4 Mercury, Onyx, DVI."
Dont know about anyone else, but these catch phrases are getting a bit old. Just say it's a free step by step guide.. Free as in beer, air whatever..
do people who ask questions ever read them back to themselves?
this is obviously geared to those who are out of warranty, and want a possible alternative to expensive out of warranty repairs.
but go ahead and think yourself insightful.
There was a long blonde hair inside and one of "these manuals" on the hard drive.
How can you try to take the high road about your customers, when you are reading the contents of their hard drive? Where are YOUR ethics?
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Everyone has their disaster stories. You want to troll, I can too.
Let me say in my experience of Apple laptops vs other laptops, the Apples last a lot longer than the others. I'm writing this on a 3.5 year old PBG3. And that's nothing. The only thing to fail in this baby - the RAM.
Let me make it a little more clear. The truth is, THERE IS NOT ONE PART ON MOST LAPTOP MOTHERBOARDS YOU THE USER COULD FIX ANYWAY! You need special gear, and even there I would rather work on a desktop system then poke and prod in a laptop given how tight everything is put together and how hard it is to put things back together unless you do this on a regular basis.
And before you ask, Yes I have been inside of a iBook, and even taking care and actually making foam board models for each layer of screws to make sure I got everything back together, I had a lot of trouble doing it and making it all fit. ITs honestly NOT a easy thign to do, they will nine times out of ten KNOW you where messing around in there and given the AppleCare service isnt much more expensive and they will replace everything for you for 3 years, INCULDING your LCD I would rather some guy in Tenn fix my computer than me potentially break it.
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I'm not trolling, but I am sensitive to people overstepping their bounds.
Getting upset about your tech seeing stuff on your hard drive is like getting upset with your accountant over them seeing your finances.
No, it is more like your tech looking at your finances on your hard drive. Would you be OK with that? Then, what if your tech was looking at your passwords on your hard drive, would you be OK with that?
There was a tech working for a company I used to work for that had no reason to be in our SQL servers, and he copied our customer lists onto his hard drive. This was not found out until after he was fired (for other reasons), and they still have no idea what he did with that information.
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If you can't rely on someone to be up front on the small stuff, there's no way you should be trusting them with the big stuff. Like a relationship.
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Changing out the hard drive in a FP iMac isn't too difficult. Something tells me his "friend" wasn't very competent, and could have just as easily fried a board on a regular desktop PC.
- oZ
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Good old Apple... 'yes you bought it, no you can't touch/open/look at it'.
Dude, this is not like swapping the power supply out of an ATX case..
If you'd ever tried to reassemble the display of a Titanium powerbook, you'd know why Apple doesn't want to deal with machines that have been dismantled by anyone who didn't get the laptop repair certification..
-jcr
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This whole story doesn't quite add up. First he says the machine worked in Firewire target mode so he was able pull important data off. When he finally gets it back, he complains of losing all his files because they didn't back it up for him.
Hmm. Which is it? Did he have his own backup or not? If he did, how did he lose hours of work? Was he too stupid to back it all up himself? He only picked a couple of important files?
Hard drive crashes can and do happen at any time. Any good slashdot reader (and especially editor) should be smart enough to take the steps necessary to minimize damage. Have a cron job copy your important files or current work over the network to another machine, if nothing else. Make backups to CD, DVD, an external Firewire drive, whatever. Or get more sophisticated and use real backup software. At least you won't lose everything, since hopefully it won't be too long since the most recent backup.
I have to say I feel no sympathy for him in this case. Especially if the thing worked in Firewire mode and he had the opportunity to get everything off of it then. And unfortunately his site doesn't seem to have anything more recent which might explain the horrible smashed picture. If he actually did that to a perfectly working machine just because he lost his data, he's an idiot.