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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
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!
Nuh uh! All 10 surface pro buyers are furious!
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.
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.