MacBooks, Chromebooks lead losers in laptop repairability analysis

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MacBooks, Chromebooks lead losers in laptop repairability analysis
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I worked on mostly Chromebook repairs for 6 months last year, and I found it to be pretty straightforward as well from a hardware standpoint...especially when there was no point in doing most repairs because it would cost more than just getting a new one.

For any OS issues, we'd simply take a flash drive and reinstall it from scratch. It's definitely gotten easier, but holy crap could it be slow as hell lol

From what I remember, even the dell process was a testament to following instructions to the T. Having to do some steps with the battery connected, then more with it disconnected, then connected again. HP used some special screw for board locking. Lol what a wild time.

Oh yeah, now it's all pretty standardized with like the same screws for everything.

Its no longer quite as silly with the specific steps to follow, but god, is it boring as all hell to work with too lol