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Surface Pro: 'Virtually Unrepairable'
An anonymous reader writes with a link to an article at Wired with some harsh words for Microsoft's new tablet: "The Surface Pro is not a repair-friendly machine. In fact, it's one of the least repairable devices iFixit has seen: In a teardown of Microsoft's tablet-laptop hybrid, the company gave it a rock-bottom score of just one — one! — out of 10 for repairability, lower even than Apple's iPad and the Windows Surface RT."
well, you fucked that up, I can only hope your love life is better
Self-breaking windows :(
For large sets, this will be our guide even unto death, for the LORD will work for each type of data it is applied to...
Sadly more and more devices are like this now. Apple seem to have popularised it and made is acceptable and other companies seem to be continuing the trend.
Microsoft's tablet is unrepairable BUT IT'S ALL APPLE'S FAULT!!!
Get used to it, been that way since Genesis.
Get used to it, been that way since Genesis.
Leave Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins out of this!
At least his rock is modular and replaceable.
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
And Microsoft's tablet is full of glue!
Best Buy will sell you a "Product Replacement Plan" for a price.
When the BB cashier offers a warranty plan, I like to respond by saying I don't think the company will still exist in 2 years... :)
Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the Law
Nuh uh! All 10 surface pro buyers are furious!
Face is all red,
Head's got no hair,
Fix Ballmer's laptop, he'll throw you his chair!
Xbox is red, Windows is blue, And Microsoft's tablet is full of glue!
I'm not exactly sure what is supposed to be special about Surface, but people only appear to dance with them. I could see a lot of screens getting broken.
I could feel this trend coming in the air tonight.
Hurt what sales? I don't think many people are interested in the Surface either way.
People in submarines are very interested in surface.
Nuh uh! All 10 surface pro buyers are furious!
I was confused until I realized you were using binary. Good one!
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Nobody repairs tablets.
Historically this is true. The makers of the Rosetta Stone knew this would be the case, so they introduced redundancy so we could still retrieve the information even of part of the tablet broke. They wrote everything three times! From what I understand, the Surface Pro is stuffed with lots of redundant code for the same reason.
I'm teaching my kid how to count binary on his fingers. The number 4 is bad!
"What happens when that SSD starts failing from the heavy IO load of desktop software? Or one of the fans blows a bearing?"
you throw it away and buy a new one.
Do you think microsoft expects anything else?
Yes. I expect them to tell me that I have to buy all new software as well.
132 is even worse.
I'm not exactly sure what is supposed to be special about Surface, but people only appear to dance with them. I could see a lot of screens getting broken.
The thing i got out of those commercials was how much the screen was smudged. You are shooting a commercial and you can't clean the smudge prints of the screen? Seriously? Why do I want a laptop that is dirty? Bad enough a cell phone screen gets smudged up, but dang, a laptop (yes, I know they are tablets, but lets be real, with the fucking keyboard cover, it's a laptop. With finger smudges all over the screen.)
Be seeing you...
Parts are easy to get. Digikey has 99% of the stuff out there. really esoteric stuff, write the manufacturer asking for a "engineering sample" and you get 2-3 of them from free in 3-4 weeks.
and unless you did something really stupid, 99% of failures on big chips are soldering failures. simple hot air rework on them fixes the problem most of the time.
Do not look at laser with remaining good eye.