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."

Comments

Geez

[Anonymous Coward]

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..

Re:Geez

[merdark]

Yes we know that, but it's still lame. By the way, was your comment Free-as-in-beer or Free-as-in-freedom?

[sarcasm]
Please tell me becasue it *really really really* matters. Oh yes. I was to go modify your comment and redistribute it!! [/sarcasm]

I understand many people have some holy quest, but last I checked this site was "news for nerds" and not "gospels of GNU". Leave the preaching for relevant stories please.

Re:Warranty?

[Anonymous Coward]

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.

Re:Saving money is great - fraud is not.

[FesterDaFelcher]

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?

Re:Warranty?

[falcon5768]

We ARE talking about a laptop here. I dont know of ONE state that allows you to open up the case of a laptop when the contracts you agreed to buying it all say you cant (yep even though you didnt sign it, that warrente contract is something you agreed to by law, in your purchase of the item.

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.

Re:Saving money is great - fraud is not.

[FesterDaFelcher]

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.

Re:Taking it to extremes

[elmegil]

It's not the keyboard, it's the lying about it. If she's gonna be duplicitous about a reasonably cheap thing like a keyboard, imagine what it's going to be like when something REALLY important goes wrong when she's involved (not even necessarily her fault).

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.

Re:this is apple's problem in a nutshell

[outZider]

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.

Re:Warranty?

[jcr]

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