Ya, no thanks... I needed to replace the battery on mine because it will only work when plugged in now. Sucks... Not worth possibly shattering the screen or cutting a cable.
Hmm.. I like the Surface design, it's really nice but the amount of glue they have used is rather disturbing! When that battery can no longer hold a charge, you have to bin the computer.
You could do, why not? Why do you constantly need to upgrade for no reason? If all you do it word processing, email and web surfing not a lot of that is going to change in 5 years is it. But at least I see that the Surface Pro is the better then a new 13" Retina MacBook Pro, because one is a tablet design and expected to be glued, the other a glued together laptop.
My take is that the Surface is a nice idea poorly executed. Mine just bricked. The SSD fried. And after looking around at 'how to open' vids I've decided that until they make a way to open it without peeling the screen of, it isn't a viable option. This is the first machine I can't take apart and service myself.
This tablet is not meant to be repaired by customers. Most of everything inside is custom designed by Microsoft specifically for the Surface. Even if they made it extremely easy to repair, its not like you can just go online and find a replacement motherboard, because no one but Microsoft has it, and Microsoft wont sell it to you.
It isn't only about whether end consumer can repair their own HW or not. Also a technical service must be able to repair the HW with less effort as possible to make repairments economical. And above all it is also about sustainability and environment. Because with things that cannot be repaired precious and toxic materials used to build a product end up to often way too quick into the garbage and then further into the earth's eco-system.
MOST people WILL NOT open a tablet to replace the motherboard, what they usually want 99 percent of the time is to upgrade to a better or bigger hard drive, upgrade to more ram and maybe change the old battery for a new one since they wear out a lot, but men making those task extremely difficult by Microsoft is NOT good, and THAT is the main reason why I NEVER GOT ONE even when I did like them from first time I saw one demo at local best buy.
Six years later and mine is still working perfectly.
The cables will shear because they're brittle from battery heat. Better to just take out the screws.
Ya, no thanks... I needed to replace the battery on mine because it will only work when plugged in now. Sucks... Not worth possibly shattering the screen or cutting a cable.
Well, looks like I'm not replacing the battery in my SP2. I guess it just stays plugged in forever now.
I've pulled 2 apart so far, and damaged the digitizer both times. Which means the touch screen is now broken. Could have been worse, I guess...
Hmm.. I like the Surface design, it's really nice but the amount of glue they have used is rather disturbing! When that battery can no longer hold a charge, you have to bin the computer.
You could do, why not? Why do you constantly need to upgrade for no reason? If all you do it word processing, email and web surfing not a lot of that is going to change in 5 years is it. But at least I see that the Surface Pro is the better then a new 13" Retina MacBook Pro, because one is a tablet design and expected to be glued, the other a glued together laptop.
Wish it were easier to replace the battery. Alas, gotta do what I gotta do. Not upgrading my device on anyone's terms, screw that.
I have that same heat gun.
Great teardown Gwendolyn, thanks.
Thank you for using metric figures!
I thought this was going to be a VIDEO. This is a SLIDESHOW. Why didn't you film the process, as everyone was expecting.
My take is that the Surface is a nice idea poorly executed. Mine just bricked. The SSD fried. And after looking around at 'how to open' vids I've decided that until they make a way to open it without peeling the screen of, it isn't a viable option. This is the first machine I can't take apart and service myself.
This tablet is not meant to be repaired by customers. Most of everything inside is custom designed by Microsoft specifically for the Surface. Even if they made it extremely easy to repair, its not like you can just go online and find a replacement motherboard, because no one but Microsoft has it, and Microsoft wont sell it to you.
It isn't only about whether end consumer can repair their own HW or not. Also a technical service must be able to repair the HW with less effort as possible to make repairments economical.
And above all it is also about sustainability and environment.
Because with things that cannot be repaired precious and toxic materials used to build a product end up to often way too quick into the garbage and then further into the earth's eco-system.
MOST people WILL NOT open a tablet to replace the motherboard, what they usually want 99 percent of the time is to upgrade to a better or bigger hard drive, upgrade to more ram and maybe change the old battery for a new one since they wear out a lot, but men making those task extremely difficult by Microsoft is NOT good, and THAT is the main reason why I NEVER GOT ONE even when I did like them from first time I saw one demo at local best buy.
So, what are you supposed to do when the fans get clogged with dust?
i assure the surfasse is neary indestructable, just drop it from the hood of my car at 60km/h and it survived. although the digitizer is broken.
Are you going to keep it for 5+ years without changing?
Thanks Gwendolyn
I've been wavering on the Surface family, but this settles it. I won't bother!
Personally I'm a mac guy but great video
Does.. Does it have FANS?!
I thought we can upgrade by ourself just like PC
They've succeeded in emulating the iPad perfectly then.
Opening skills.. Sorry for that
So you don't want to be dropping one of these ;)
The Microsoft Surface Pro 2 has 2 small fans LOL
You must be trolling, right?
and I thought the iPad was bad to repair...
Ha ha 1 mark!
great performance, cool design, great screen ... but this is just just soo stupid/unecological, stopped me want buying this ...
compressed air I would guess..