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| apis:
--- Quote from: bd139 on March 26, 2019, 12:03:40 pm --- --- Quote from: apis on March 26, 2019, 11:54:08 am --- --- Quote from: rdl on March 26, 2019, 04:16:42 am ---Non-replaceable batteries are stupid and should be illegal. --- End quote --- Yes it should, it's such a waste. You shouldn't be allowed to make it harder to repair things or replace parts. --- End quote --- How do you make smaller, more efficent things without sacrificing repair? --- End quote --- I don't think it would have been that hard to make batteries replaceable, just don't glue the case together. But I was thinking of things like having cryptographic authentication in things like laptop batteries to prevent them from being replaced when they fail. |
| bd139:
My laptop doesn't (Thinkpad T-series) It does have a BMS that commits suicide if the batteries sit on the shelf for a few years though. Which I'm fine with as I got a nice 3s2p pack out of that one and got a free replacement. |
| apis:
I was looking at a Thinkpad but the T-series is pretty pricey for private individuals. |
| madires:
--- Quote from: bd139 on March 26, 2019, 12:03:40 pm --- --- Quote from: madires on March 26, 2019, 11:20:45 am ---Apple Forces Recyclers to Shred All iPhones and MacBooks: https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/yp73jw/apple-recycling-iphones-macbooks --- End quote --- Apple can't force anyone to do shit. This is the recyclers bending over. The reason they want to control the recycling is to keep all the frankendevices off the market which are a pile of shit to deal with even if you're a third party repairer. So you go in CEX here in the UK and buy an iPhone. Who knows what you get? Probably a write off with a trivial repair. Heard a lot of horror stories there. --- End quote --- But there also also repair shops like Louis Rossmann's. Do you have a car? Then you might know that there are good independent garages, as well as bad ones. Even several certified garages (certified by the car manufacturer) provide poor service. And there are also good certified ones. Would you like to be forced to get your car repaired or serviced only by a certified garage if you know a great independent one just around the corner? |
| bd139:
--- Quote from: apis on March 26, 2019, 02:05:19 pm ---I was looking at a Thinkpad but the T-series is pretty pricey for private individuals. --- End quote --- Mine is 4 years old and cost me half the price of a bottom end pile of consumer crap. I have added an SSD, full HD display, extended battery to it and broken even on an HP netbook price. |
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