DISPLAY DESTRUCTION D'OH! Teardown cracks Surface Pro 3 screen Microsoft has pitched its Surface Pro 3 as a "tablet that can replace your laptop." That is unless, it seems, you want to repair or upgrade your laptop. Teardown specialists iFixit have posted their initial dissection of the latest Redmond tablet, and they've concluded that the surface on the Surface is poor for service. The …
From my personal experience, if a device like this is intensively used, the battery capacity will be significantly be decreased after 2 years- unless it fails catastrophically before then. Another weak point can be the charging/usb connectors. This M$ built-in "programmed obsolescence" is an outright scam.
The solution? Maybe the UE should make it mandatory for manufacturers to extend warranties to six years by paying an extra 10% of original purchase price before the standard 2 year warranty period expires. Since no Li-ion battery is going to last 6 years, this bad habit of gluing everything together will suddenly cease.
Another thing I would like to see is a mandatory "repairabilty index" sticker on all consumer electronics; which must pass a minimum limit or otherwise be banned from sale in the UE.
"Another thing I would like to see is a mandatory "repairabilty index" sticker on all consumer electronics; which must pass a minimum limit or otherwise be banned from sale in the UE."
Repair-ability is a bit subjective though isn't it? for most consumers the rating for ANY device will be 0.. maybe 1 for devices with removable batteries (Though I hardly class that as a repair)
I doubt that 99.9% of the consumers of any device nowadays would even consider taking their device apart.
People commenting on here tend to forget that not everyone has the desire or knowledge to fix their devices themselves.. and are quite happy to replace tech when it fails (or in most cases when they perceive that it is knocking on a bit and want something new).
It's not so much that people are quite happy to replace stuff, as that the cost of labour means that an hour of a technicians time will cost a substantial fraction of what it would cost to just buy a replacement - and if one component has worn-out/been damaged, maybe another component will need to be replaced shorty after you pay for the first repair.
Given the pace of change in a lot of consumer electronics, buying new instead of repairing also means new features, better specs as well as the all important "shiny, shiny!!" factor (and a new warranty, to boot!)
I imagine there are probably some football fans reading who wish their TVs had developed a fault in the weeks before the World Cup so that they would have had an excuse to replace it, rather than repair it!
I mean I can understand some of the decisions. Nobody cares if the battery or the electronics works, thanks to "Secure Boot" it's bricked by default anyhow.
What's worrisome is they apparently made it lighter, making it less suitable at its primary use as a paperweight.
I know that they know what they are doing, but your point is valid - the rule with these seems to be if you are meeting resistance, use more heat and distribute the pressure evenly (Especially on larger screens)
Given that the surface 3 is basically a laptop in a tablet form factor and will be kicking out a decent amount of heat I'd put money on the glue that MS use needing to be hotter before it gives up its grip...
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