Microsoft Surface Pro Teardown

Re:Microsoft Surface Pro Teardown by meaty on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @05:11PM (#5216020)

So it's basically a disposable non-repairable piece of landfill fodder. Why do people accept this? Stuff breaks all the time either through accidental damage or otherwise. If it didn't, there wouldn't be literally millions of tech repair shops around.

Glue is just fucking lazy poor engineering if you ask me. It's an instant recognition of not being able to produce a durable mechanical modular design.

And for that price, they can fuck off as well.

At the end of the day you can get a ThinkPad for that which will last literally YEARS (the T61 I'm typing this on is 6 years old in March and still going strong with very little maintenance done).

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Re:Microsoft Surface Pro Teardown by skeletonjelly on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @06:23PM (#5216402)

If you're just realising this now I feel like I have some bad news for you. The whole hardware market (as green as it tries to be) is a big landfill creation machine.

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Re:Microsoft Surface Pro Teardown by meaty on Thursday February 14, 2013 @03:46AM (#5218488)

I agree but there is a difference between throwing out parts and assemblies to having to throw an entire unit out due to what could be a failure of a $1 part.

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Re:Microsoft Surface Pro Teardown by andrewfelix on Wednesday February 13, 2013 @11:20PM (#5217698)

I'm still running a seven year old core 2 desktop that periodically requires a new HDD or video card. It runs like a champ, so I agree with you wholeheartedly.

Also +1 for passion.

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