Buy Framework laptops, these have amazing repairability and upgradability, as well as good Linux compatibility. They even offer ChromeOS options, if you ever need a Chromebook.
If you upgrade the motherboard, you can actually 3d print or buy a $60 case and use the old motherboard as a desktop.
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Yeah it’s really cool. Also works very well with an external Gpu.
I mean can’t you just plug it into a monitor and then use it as a desktop?
Yup - as someone else pointed out I wasn’t clear in what I said. If you buy a new mobo to upgrade your laptop, you wind up with an older mobo that sits there. You can then actually use the old mobo as a desktop computer as long as it has ram and an SSD. The form factor and IO were designed with this functionality in mind.
Yes, but open contacts aren’t that nice ^^
Yes, the point they’re making is that if you upgrade the laptop components, you can use the old components as another PC
Make the vendor responsible for actual recycling and this issue goes away over night
https://www.apple.com/shop/open/free_recycling
It’s not really free, but it’s there as an option.
It’s not at all free - you pay for it when you buy their new product. This is just sale incentives.
There is no scenario where a company doing this would not be paid for by customers in a roundabout way. So if we want to require that every company to do this, that means every company is going to balance their finances to make it happen and if it costs them money, it costs us money.
amazon’s local showrooms… err, i mean bestbuy locations across the u.s., accepts many things for recycling–at no charge. including cell phones, desktops, laptops, all-in-ones, and printers. details here
It’s true, they make a good profit by recycling those things too from what I’ve heard
I think I could justify Chromebooks to a degree when it comes to hardware. The goal is clearly to produce cheapest hardware possible, which inevitably means soldered components and mass production with features disabled in software. I can’t excuse software locking and bad practices, though. However what Apple is doing is just sinister.
The fact that you can’t buy the cable needed to unbrick a Chromebook, and have to solder it together yourself from Google’s schematics is ridiculous.
Chromebooks are straight up hostile towards attempts at repairs, maintenance, or upgrades. It’s wild, they really went the extra mile towards rampant consumerism.
It’s not ridiculous it’s designed that way
It can be designed ridiculously
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Ohh yeah, I literally work as a field technician fixing computers for some of the big companies. Literally the only computers that make me & my competitors go insane are Chromebooks. Hardware is ok at best. Software is absolutely HELL though.
They’re the non rechargeable ecigs of the laptop world
You mean the “disposables”, even though that’s a misnomer. Many of them require a charge one or more times throughout their shitty little lives.
I’m using external keyboard on my macbook because the letter i is not working and replacing the keyboard means completely gutting the thing and ripping the old one out by force as it’s locked in place with plastic rivets.
Having worked in a repair shop, I can give you instructions, but that would be assuming you have the resources and the tools to follow said directions and nothing should designed like that…
Thanks. There’s plenty of instructions on how to do it but in my case the biggest issue would probably be sourcing a new Finnish keyboard for it
Ah yeah, good fucken luck
Where do I get the keyboard as a part from? I bought a keyboard from a seemingly branded seller on Aliexpress and the keyboard was really shit. The spacebar didn’t balance at the edges and all the key felt mushy.
I also bought a battery from iFixit and got two warranty replacements and not a single one lasted more than a few hours before bricking itself. As in the battery still measured a voltage and it could keep the ram contents in sleep but the controller/battery info no longer showed up in macOS.
I can do these repairs as difficult as they are but where do I actually get the parts from?
In that case, first place I’d look is on EBay to find ‘Books being sold for parts. You’re not going to have a lot of luck getting an OEM keyboard.
As far as where we got most of our parts from, we usually went to MobileSentrix or MobileDefenders. They stock parts for a lot of phones, even replacement displays for iPhones, Surfaces, and Switch. However, I don’t recall if they require some sort of business account.
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that they have to replace each member of their family’s $1,000 phone every other year because it’s not designed to last
What do they do? I’m on my third phone since they came to be and the one inbetween only because it became infeasible to repair a broken screen. While my Galaxy S3 just retired from being an alarm clock, because the battery can’t be charged anymore (and replacement batteries were bad-as-new in 2016 already).
Maybe don’t buy $1000 phones then.
You can get much more reliable and sturdy phones for like $300-$400 and they last longer than the flimsy fancy flagship phones. They just don’t have the best features.
Oh boy i sure do love you have to hack into the bios just to install a usable os on the only truly mass market linux laptops
Mrchromebox is doing the Lord’s work.
