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Originally Posted by bobcdy
Perhaps those spending $1000+ for a surface pro with keyboard don't realize that the cost of battery replacement is about $470.00! or more than half the price of a new unit. Thus your tablet computer is a throwaway device. Also, once the battery is exhausted one can't boot up the tablet using the power unit: http://thingsthatmightinterestnerds....warrantycosts/
Laptop batteries can be replaced, often for $100-200, in contrast to the MS Surface Pro.
Also, as far as I can tell, the MS decision to prevent user-servicing is not required by the specs/dimensions but by a decision to use servicing as a source of dollars for MS. The major reason it can't easily be user-serviced is the abundance of glue inside it, as the following source documents:
http://www.techrepublic.com/blog/cra...than-a-tablet/ |
I've owned about 15 private laptops and dozens of tablets.
Of course, the tablets only are 3 years old or even less.
Anyway...
I never took any unit to repair.
Not a single one.
A few laptops died on me.
But only after 2, most after 3 and more years of usage.
Why would I want to repair such an old unit?
With the exception of iPads, most units drop so drastically in prices, that you can have a new unit for replacement for about the same price as you'd pay for repair of the old one.
Most users will have their tablets for about 2 years, if I look at my friends and colleagues. Vast majority of all units should make that long.
There's always the risk of your typical "Monday unit". But this normally will occur within the first weeks of usage, not after 1 or 2 years.
So, is it really such a problem, if units are hard (or even impossible) to repair?
We're a "throwaway society". This certainly is disastrous from an ecological perspective. But re. usability, durability and such?
But of course I agree: The exchangeable battery on my Dell Latitude 10 is way preferable to the none-exchangeables on Surface Pro or iPad.
But not because of repairs, only because of doubling the battery duration while on the road. I wouldn't trade this convenience though for added weight or increase in depth or something like that...