On 04/15/2012 05:07 PM, Lostgallifreyan wrote:
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Yep. I did not think of that one.
Though I do laptop repairs I consider it more akin to watch repair.


You have far more patience than I have. And it's a valid comparison. While
the screws are larger, the unusual fittings, and precision needed, aren't far
off handling a watch, which I tried a few times as a kid. Sony Walkmans are
another trial by ordeal. I threw one across a room. The owner was
sympathetic, but he could see I was more distressed than he had reason to be.
I hated being beaten by those tiny switches and the near impossibility of
setting them in place during reassembly when brain and sight were fried by an
already extremely arduous task. In short, I found hard manual labour more
easy to endure, and for longer. I can handle long tasks needing thought and
long term focus, but ONLY if I can actually see and feel what I'm doing...

As to Mac laptops though, there is very little I will attempt.


There are Technics amps like that. I found that getting into one was like
a Chinese puzzle box. They really didn't want freelancers getting in there.

I mentioned recently buying an Eee machine (Asus), in some post a few weeks
back. That too found its way to the nearest wall, via an impact on the floor.
I have no regrets. The time spent doing otherwise, now THAT I might easily
have regretted. What was cool is that its hard disk and RAM survived the
impact, and the disk will go into some ITX machine, probably replacing a CF
card in the small 1U rack.

I think what I have learned from all this is that I should NEVER, despite
often getting it wrong yet again, trust in a machine I cannot service and
maintain and alter to my own needs, with my own resources. If there was no
way I could get that need met without buying off-the-shelf complete boxes
this might make less sense, but I have found little to tempt me to move on,
and only a recent uptake of coding will tempt me to run a few things other,
just to test how far I can stretch compatibility....


In general, before I disassemble a laptop I search on-line for a
tutorial. Though they are rarely intuitive quite of few of them are
simple to work on once you know the little secrets.

But even with a tutorial some mac laptops are pretty difficult and I
swore I'd never buy one...but I was forced into it as when I bought my
Lytro, it's currently only possible to use it with a Mac



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