7 Oct
2011
7 Oct
'11
12:16 p.m.
On Thu, Oct 6, 2011 at 5:10 PM, TeoZ <teoz at neo.rr.com> wrote:
As have I, several times. Much of the time it's simple things that fail
anyway.
Sure we need more people to design locked in
closed overpriced platforms you
cannot service.
I've repaired broken Mac hardware - it's not as easy as for some other platforms (like the Amiga, one of the last home
computer makers I can
think of that published their schematics) but one can infer a lot from
inspecting a board and reverse-engineering some schematics.
Indeed. There's enough information around to figure a lot of the hardware
out, at least of the older machines.
[..]
I prefer the things I buy to be openable and
repairable, but just
As you all know, I _insist_ on it, which is noe reason I buy very little
new stuff. I don;t think Apple is any worse than most other manufcatures
in this respect -- try getting an ASIC for just about any modern computer...
because something isn't doesn't mean I would
_never_ buy it. Most
people who buy cars don't do their own maintenance (I do stuff I can
I am probably unique in that I've never learnt to drive, but I am happy
to do just about any repair on the family car (the only thing I can't do
is the air conditioning. Everything else I'll manage)
and pay other people for stuff I can't or prefer
not to). These days,
most people don't do their own computer/electronic maintenance either.
They buy something, use it, break it or get distracted by the new
shiny, then replace it. They just don't care that it's difficult to
fix. They care how shiny it is. I'm happy to be more than a passive
consumer, but that's a minority position.
I wonder what the fraction of people here is who do all their own repairs?
-tony