I think some companies deliberately make the cases hard to open, to discourage DIY. Or maybe, in the wise words of MST3K, "they just don't care."
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Theodosia - Mar 25, 2007 6:08:41 am PDT #990 of 25496
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
DCJensen - Mar 25, 2007 6:11:40 am PDT #991 of 25496
All is well that ends in pizza.
Before Steve Jobs came back, Apple had some of the worst designs for upgrading RAM ever. You nearly had to dismantle everything inside a 8500/9500 series case to get at the RAM.
Sean K - Mar 25, 2007 6:12:32 am PDT #992 of 25496
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Well, and then Dell typically (IME) makes the cases pretty easy to open, in a very non-intuitive way.
Jessica - Mar 25, 2007 6:19:11 am PDT #993 of 25496
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Anyone have any magic tricks for getting an HP 6120 Officejet printer to network with a couple of Macs using an Airport Express as a print server? We had it working in the old apartment, and now I can't remember how we did it. (So far the Just Plug It Back In The Way It Was In The Old Place method has failed to yield satisfactory results.)
NoiseDesign - Mar 25, 2007 9:08:54 am PDT #994 of 25496
Our wings are not tired
Yeah, the 8100, 8500 cases were some of the worst designs ever. You had to completely remove the processor, all the expansion cards, and pull the motherboard to upgrade the RAM.
tommyrot - Mar 25, 2007 9:18:47 am PDT #995 of 25496
Sir, it's not an offence to let your cat eat your bacon. Okay? And we don't arrest cats, I'm very sorry.
Heh. I mean, damn.
I was annoyed that replacing the HD of an iBook required major disassembly of the laptop, including prying the display apart. Apple recommended against users doing it themselves. (BTW, anyone want a G3 iBook with a dead HD?)
They made replacing the HD easy on the MacBook. I'm planning on replacing the 60MB HD on mine with something far larger, so I can store my 60MB of music on it.
DCJensen - Mar 25, 2007 10:23:05 am PDT #996 of 25496
All is well that ends in pizza.
BTW, anyone want a G3 iBook with a dead HD
I do. Andi's iBook has a dead C on the keyboard and I could use the spare parts as spare parts. Or her hard drive in yours.
I really wish her previous Mac laptop (The one bought from Noisedesign, A powerbook G4) hadn't encountered a blunt force injury right at the center, including shattering the Hdd. She loved that thing.
How much do you want for it?
Sophia Brooks - Mar 26, 2007 4:14:06 am PDT #997 of 25496
Cats to become a rabbit should gather immediately now here
Does this:
seem like a good value for pretty much going on the internet and/or using in the costume shop to take notes/type out emails to send later (no internet in costume shop). Frankly, I am attracted by the flexpay option that HSN gives.
Gris - Mar 26, 2007 9:38:11 am PDT #998 of 25496
Hey. New board.
I'm caving and going back to Firefox. Camino is not as cool and Opera isn't fitting my style.
Extensions I should install? (I've got Tabbrowser extensions, greasemonkey, an extended opera-style statusbar that shows time and page size and images loaded, FireFTP (in case I don't want to use Cyberduck for some reason), ImageZoom, AdBlock Plus, and Foxposé. I've also got Greasemonkey - any cool scripts I should be sure to get?
Jon B. - Mar 26, 2007 9:55:31 am PDT #999 of 25496
A turkey in every toilet -- only in America!
- DownloadThemAll (makes downloading a bunch of files from one page a breeze)
- Linkification (converts text links in to clickable ones)
- It\'s All Text! (compose posts like this one in your favorite text editor)