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Not my screnshot. A friend sent it to me.

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[–] 20 points 3 months ago (2 children)

I recently had a work laptop battery die. This was during COVID so I didn't want to deal with taking it to a place or having them send a technician. I told them to just mail me one and I'd do it myself. I assumed it would pop out like the picture and be easily replaced. It turned out that I needed a heat gun and had to get like 5 screws out, remove and replace a ribbon cable and a few other things. It was still doable, but thanks Dell for making that way harder than it had to be to sell services to people.

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  • [–] 1 point 3 months ago* (1 child)

    Odd for a Dell to need a heat gun, I've done a few of them (since the early 2000's)and they were all screws.

    Sounds like something from a consumer or compact model?

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  • [–] 6 points 3 months ago

    Maybe it didn't need a heat gun. I'm going off memory from a few years ago and I might have added that thinking about phone batteries I've done. In any event, it was far more complicated than the last dell I'd changed (maybe 2010 ish which involved sliding a tab with your thumb like so:

    I thought this was all I'd have to do. Fuck Tim Apple and Steve Jobs for starting all this bullshit. Tech used to be really fucking easy to do basic maintenance and small upgrades.

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