Poll of the Day > Arvs changing a laptop battery what a big giant fat ass that is

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they Really think they are going to make Arv buy a new lap top the only thing they are doing is wasting arvs time and making Arv bitch about it

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It really is rather annoying how difficult it is to swap out components in modern laptops. It wasn't that long ago that laptops would have small panels on the bottom you could remove to replace the hard drive, RAM, and sometimes other things, and batteries just came right out by releasing a couple latches. Replacing the hard drive in my current laptop, though, required me to dismantle the whole thing, and I imagine the battery would have been a similar ordeal.

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they made putting in the hdd super easy but Arv has to take the screen off in order to get to the battery and take some screws off and the battery is like glued in its like really and they put like 50 screws of all different sizes so you have to keep everything organized

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Arv has all these pieces everywhere and Arvs getting dirty looks like they thought Arv only had to change the battery Arvs like he is changing it

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It must be like watching Hal Wilkerson change a lightbulb.

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I had to take off the keyboard assembly to get to my HDD. That didn't involve too many difference screw sizes, thankfully, but it was definitely an ordeal to get it apart.

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Arv has to do that too. Arv replaces laptop screens easier than this changing a battery shouldnt be more time consuming and challenging than replacing a screen

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Arv got the battery in putting the ribbons back in from the screen to the board is a big pain in the ass

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Anyone got a handy soldering iron?
I'm trying to change a battery in my genesis game.

Jokes aside, it is crappy that companies seem to be shifting towards making it difficult to change anything in an electronic. Has there ever been a good reason behind it or did we just buy into it not caring?
I dislike buying new electronics, not because I have to learn anything new, but because things only seem to be getting more powerful but not necessarily better.

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pedro45 posted...

Jokes aside, it is crappy that companies seem to be shifting towards making it difficult to change anything in an electronic. Has there ever been a good reason behind it or did we just buy into it not caring?

A part of it is the drive toward smaller form factors, at least when dealing with laptops and the like. It's generally a lot easier to shrink a device down when you can really cram stuff in there than when you have to worry about making it accessible for people that want to change it out. People not caring is the primary reason, though. Even when repairing electronics is an option, most consumers don't bother, so companies taking that ability away isn't a problem for most people. It ties in with the general trend toward companies trying to have greater control over their products after selling them by limiting users' and third parties' abilities to service the devices, forcing them to either pay for first-party repairs or just buy a new one.

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when arv got it finished its like okay now arv knows almost every part and how it assembles if it ever happened again arv could cut the time by 90% the hardest part was knowing how to get the vga ribbon back on because it came off without arv knowing and it was a snap on instead of having clamps like the other ribbons. it was a nice 40 dollar experiment arv would not want to do again. it took like 45 minutes of (is this part going to break easily)

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pedro45 posted...

Anyone got a handy soldering iron?
I'm trying to change a battery in my genesis game.

Jokes aside, it is crappy that companies seem to be shifting towards making it difficult to change anything in an electronic. Has there ever been a good reason behind it or did we just buy into it not caring?
I dislike buying new electronics, not because I have to learn anything new, but because things only seem to be getting more powerful but not necessarily better.

what genesis game? can you change the battery on arvs sonic 3?

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Shadowrun.
I probably could cause it looks simple according to videos.

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arv doesnt have solder but heard its easy if you know how to solder

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