[dba-Tech] Repairing the Surface Pro

On 2013-02-22 4:09 PM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
> Hi Peter:
>
> To my way of thinking it still doesn't make it acceptable... a thousand
> bucks for a throw-away seems excessive to me.

Oh I see, $1K, yikes, that's a lotta money for a tablet. I paid $225 a 
year ago for my Android 4 tablet, it's still working fine, and for that 
money I don't expect top be able to go in and replace parts.

PB

>
> Jim
>
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> Sent: Friday, February 22, 2013 2:00 PM
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> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Repairing the Surface Pro
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> On 2013-02-22 2:49 PM, Jim Lawrence wrote:
>> Hi All:
>>
>> Here is an interesting article on the difficulties of repairing your
> Surface
>> Pro. You wouldn't be taking it apart to add new memory, batteries, hard
>> drives or even just cleaning out dust from the ventilation ports.
>>
>> How bad is it?...It is being compared to the Ultrabook which has been
> called
>> the most unrepairable piece of equipment on the market.
>>
>>
> http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/cracking-open/difficult-to-repair-surface-p
> ro-built-more-like-an-ultrabook-than-a-tablet/938?tag=nl.e101&s_cid=e101&tta
>> g=e101
> Aren't most tablets built like that?
>
> PB
>
> -----
>
>> This article might be well worth saving for those purchasing such a
> product.
>> Jim
>>
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