Surface Pro: 'Virtually Unrepairable' 418
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."
Re:HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! (Score:5, Funny)
well, you fucked that up, I can only hope your love life is better
Re:Enter the modern world of ... (Score:5, Funny)
Self-breaking windows :(
Re:It's the future... (Score:5, Funny)
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!!!
Re:It's the future... (Score:5, Funny)
Get used to it, been that way since Genesis.
Re:It's the future... (Score:5, Funny)
Get used to it, been that way since Genesis.
Leave Peter Gabriel and Phil Collins out of this!
Re:Enter the modern world of ... (Score:4, Funny)
At least his rock is modular and replaceable.
Re:HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! (Score:4, Funny)
Roses are red,
Violets are blue,
And Microsoft's tablet is full of glue!
Re:This is not news (Score:4, Funny)
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... :)
Re:Yawn. (Score:5, Funny)
Nuh uh! All 10 surface pro buyers are furious!
Re:HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! (Score:3, Funny)
Face is all red,
Head's got no hair,
Fix Ballmer's laptop, he'll throw you his chair!
Re:HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! (Score:5, Funny)
Xbox is red, Windows is blue, And Microsoft's tablet is full of glue!
Re:Yawn. (Score:5, Funny)
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.
Re:It's the future... (Score:5, Funny)
I could feel this trend coming in the air tonight.
Re:Enter the modern world of ... (Score:5, Funny)
Hurt what sales? I don't think many people are interested in the Surface either way.
People in submarines are very interested in surface.
Re:Yawn. (Score:5, Funny)
Nuh uh! All 10 surface pro buyers are furious!
I was confused until I realized you were using binary. Good one!
Re:Yawn. (Score:5, Funny)
Nobody repairs tablets.
Historically this is true. The makers of the Rosetta Stone [wikipedia.org] 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 [slashdot.org] for the same reason.
Re:Yawn. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Yawn. (Score:5, Funny)
"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. (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Yawn. (Score:5, Funny)
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.)
Re:It's the future... (Score:4, Funny)
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.