Craig W. asks:
>Just for sake of asking, and for a reference, how does taking apart an iBook
>compare to a 2400c?
The iBook's pretty easy after dealing with a pile of 2400s! I think the
iBook is a much more logical design, take-apart-wise anyway. You'll have
to tell us what _you_ think once you've tried both. :-)
Interesting question actually . . . I'm not afraid to take _anything_
apart, so it may be that I shouldn't be offering up comparisons. Still, I
do have a take-apart scale, easiest to hardest. The PB100s and Duos are
sooo neat and simple, PB500s I can strip and rebuild with my eyes closed,
190/5300/3400/Kanga are simplicity itself. But as the HW gets newer, the
trickier it becomes. WS/Lombard/Pismo aren't hard, but they are more
complicated, the TiBooks more fidgety still and the dual-USB-onward
iBooks are _sooo_ tightly packed they're getting into what _I_ consider
difficult. Or at least a real PITA.
So for me, the clamshell iBook fits somewhere in there around
WS/Lombard/Pismo, and the 2400 is closer to the TiBook.
BTW, the above scale is about replacing something serious like a LB or
similar, NOT just replacing a HD or something.
Hmmmm, I'm just thinking of how I rate something 'difficult' . . . Maybe
it's when I take something apart and I feel like if I don't get back
together _right_away_ I'll forget where everything goes. That is, I
consider something difficult if it's so complicated I cannot remember how
to re-assemble it a day or several days later.
It'd be kind of interesting to create a chart showing PB models, their
parts and a degree of replacement difficulty rating for each item. Dunno
what use such a thing would be though . . .
For example, with a scale 1-10,
10 being the absolute hardest, biggest PITA job:
PB100 Duo PB500 iBook (original)
--------------------------------------
LB 4 3 5 6
HD 3 3 2 5
RAM 2 2 3 1
(just some arbitrary examples, just MHO, etc. . . .)
Heck, maybe something like this already exists, anyone know of such a
thing?
Dan K (sorry for the well-OT ramble :-)
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