i hate/love fixing mac laptops

BigSteve702

BigSteve702

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the damn things are a pain in the arse to work on. you need to replace a harddrive? the older macbooks require you to literally rip the whole thing apart to get to the hd. today i had to do that on one, total pain in the anus

HOWEVER, need a os reinstall? i had a external harddrive at work with os10 installed. all i had to do was boot to the external, and use the superduper program to copy over the image. piece of cake

at work we have alot of laptop disc images saved on the server, so if a laptop needs a reinstall and we have the image, i can just use symantec ghostcast and copy the image over the lan. i just wish windows was as simple to get copied over as os10 is :/
 
The earlier generation of the newer unibody MBP's (like this one) actually made it fairly easy to get the HDD out, you opened a hatch underneath, undid a few screws and the drive was out! The designer must have then had a relapse and ended up going back to the design of beforehand where you have to disassemble the whole base panel:confused:

C'est confusé!
 
You are referring to the G4 iBooks, and yes they were a huge pain in the ass to take apart. The newer ones aren't that bad, but I have never met a laptop that was that easy to tear apart and put back together.
 
Could be worse. Could be an HP Probook. You actually can't remove the bottom. The only way to get to the hardware is to remove the keyboard and top panel.
 
tlarkin said:
You are referring to the G4 iBooks, and yes they were a huge pain in the ass to take apart. The newer ones aren't that bad, but I have never met a laptop that was that easy to tear apart and put back together.
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Depends on the part i guess, i know ASUS notebooks have pretty easy access to most components, but actually disassembling them is a PITA. The old ibooks i agree with, a total pain to take apart.
 
linkin said:
On my dad's sony vaio, all you have to do is pop out the plastic bit and pull the drive out.
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i wish the one i worked on yesterday was that easy. it was a very nicely styled sony, must have been a newer one. but the whole bottom shell had to come off, and a usb daughterboard had to be taken out just to remove the harddrive

you know what i really like, is replacing the dc jacks on those bigger toshibas. i love the dc jacks that are on harnesses... no more prying out ones off the board, or trying to break the solder.... resolderin on the traces.... just connect the cable and epoxy it in place. easy :)

a REALLY nice laptop to work with is those newer dell inspirons. i liked how every thing you needed to reach had a compartment on the bottom. i had to replace the processor... the entire heatsink had its own compartment. dell has mostly been pretty good with that in their laptops...
 
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