#MICROSOFT SURFACE 3 WONT TURN ON MANUALS#
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#MICROSOFT SURFACE 3 WONT TURN ON OFFLINE#

You pay the same amount for a digital copy as you do for a physical copy and while it doesn't get lost (unless the company goes under) or damaged you also can not lend, trade or sell your copy often times you can't even watch your copy offline it's yours permanently with a physical copy you may have been able to buy a blueray set for $30 watch it then sell it to one of your friends for $15 lowering your own net expense. We thought blurays were going to eventually replace dvds but it looks more like online video is going to kill them both before that happens. Most video sales are very rapidly moving to digital copies i'm starting to see more and more stuff that is digital only that you can't buy physical copies of. Related in companies destroying industries. We can replace a daughter-card with the USB and power input ports for $50, replace the broken bezel surrounding the keyboard for $30, not have to buy a $500 mainboard etc. It's still expensive if a screen gets smashed, but if someone drops the laptop/convertible-tablet with a USB flash memory stick plugged in we don't necessarily have to replace the whole computer.

We ended up with machines with connectors on inexpensive and easily-replaced daughterboards, with modular storage, and with inexpensive replacement plastic housings. As a result we re-evaluated and switched to a different vendor, and in the eval process we disassembled machines and saw just how good claims of repair and reliability were. Instead we got portables that used a lot of adhesives, had a lot of integration where ports were on mainboards such that damage to ports would destroy the mainboard, and where parts were available they were extremely expensive and very slow to arrive.

#MICROSOFT SURFACE 3 WONT TURN ON PORTABLE#

We've basically migrated away from one vendor because they promised us portable computers that were serviceable and that there'd be parts availability. It is physically impossible to nondestructively open this device.'Įven if it's not user-repairability, IT shops for sufficiently large organizations like being able to fix devices when they're damaged, or at least being able to retrieve user data. 'It's a Russian nesting doll from hell with everything hidden under adhesive and plastic spot welds. 'If we could give it a -1 out of 10, we would,' iFixit said in an emailed statement on Friday. 'It literally can't be opened without destroying it,' the repair company concludes. Whether or not it's actually worth going through the trouble of defeating said welding is another matter, given that the 'glue-filled monstrosity,' as iFixit dubs the laptop, has none of the user-upgradeable parts you'd want to see in a PC, like memory or storage. Anyone hoping to get inside the 'beautifully designed and crafted' computer will have to pry it open with a knife or dedicated pick in order to defeat Microsoft's plastic welding. Instead, the laptop is literally welded together using a type of 'plastic soldering' that is rare to see in consumer electronics.

For starters, there are no screws, proprietary or otherwise, on the outside of the laptop.

#MICROSOFT SURFACE 3 WONT TURN ON MANUALS#

The company, which provides repair tools and manuals for popular gadgets like the iPhone and PlayStation, has handed the Surface Laptop a score of 0 out of 10 in terms of user repairability, stating definitively that the laptop 'is not meant to be opened or repaired you can't get inside without inflicting a lot of damage.' iFixit's detailed teardown illustrates just how difficult it is to open the Surface. An anonymous reader quotes a report from Motherboard: Microsoft's latest Surface Laptop may have earned glowing reviews from certain sections of the tech press, but don't tell that to iFixit.

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