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ProllyInfamoustoday at 7:11 PM2 repliesview on HN

Repairability examples:

modular USB ports; battery sans glue; trackpad

Twenty years ago, I worked part-time in a laptop repair facility for a large educational institution; this computer would have been a godsend (e.g. the first MacBooks had hundreds of screws, plastic everywhere).


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MBCooktoday at 8:50 PM

Keyboard that doesn’t require half the computer to be thrown away to replace it!

That probably bit them HARD during the butterfly days.

mmmlinuxtoday at 8:58 PM

Most laptops back then were filled with tons of screws.