by Sundar Raman on 30 May 2009
Tags: hack, laptop, macbook, repair, torx
No Badges, from Blazing Saddles
I hate reading instructions. Every time I see anything that says anything about instructions I find myself in a state of corporal transference into either Blazing Saddles or The Treasure of Sierra Madre. The irony is of course, that the stinkin’ instructions, as with the stinkin’ badges, are rather crucial in some cases.
My friend Jordan and I got into Macbook surgery last night, over a few Coronas, without reading the first page of the iFixIt instructions (which lists the tools that you MUST have with you before starting a dimantlement job). Yes, I know that combination sounds like a recipe for disaster, but honestly, the word ‘disaster’ does not enter the lexicon of one who has consumed a couple of beers, ok?!
For the record, iFixIt is AWESOME! After the jump my adventures in not reading the initial instructions.
Anyway, this post is an experiment in story-telling using slideshare (which, BTW, I think is almost as awesome as iFixIt). Would love to hear about people’s travails with laptop repair (and solutions) and whether this slide-blog (slog?) thing is annoying or not.
About the author:
Sundar Raman - who has written 42 articles on Fairfield Voice.
It's only fair that I say a bit about myself before I force the world to share in my deepest (darkest?) insights I guess, so here goes.
I'm a Fairfield native. Not by birth, but having been here for just about 20 years I think I can consider myself about as committed to this community as anyone out there.
I'm an Open Source advocate. This means that I have long, drawn out debates about the merits of transparency that make for very awkward dinner conversations with my more corporate friends and relatives.
I'm opinionated about most things. I'm more opinionated about things that I know absolutely nothing about than those that I know something about. I'm sure that says a lot about me to the psycho-analysts out there. (Instructions to readers of my posts: 1. procure a sizeable hunk of Himalayan Pink Salt; 2. place HPS next to computer; 3. read blog sentence; 4. lick HPS; 5. repeat steps 3-5. )
I love politics, food, travel, nature, photography, art and technology. Not in any particular order, and the more deviant and unconventional these are, the better!
So now that you know me, let's get it on ...
I'm really impressed you filed down the bit to make a T6. I've driven all the way back to Ottumwa to get the right one.
Pretty funny slideshare. There's an irony I cannot ignore though – instructions on how to repair a Macbook using a Microsoft document platform.
I never knew that.
Microsoft is going to eat your dingo! Actually this is all OpenOffice, and saved as a PDF, which SlideShare then Flash'ed. But to be totally fair, this was a Macintosh-inspired app (I believe there was a Xerox PARC connection to powerpoint somewhere, but may be making that up), that was popularized by Microsoft that then went on to become hugely successful on MS's Office package which primarily ran on Windows, but was initially written for the Macintosh. So there, I guess
Wikipedia says: "PowerPoint was initially developed in 1984 by Forethought, Inc., Sunnyvale, California, for the Macintosh computer. "