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Quote: "on a scale of 1 to 5, what is your favorite number? : 1, 2, 3, 4, 5"
I bet that 1 will get a really low score.
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I almost always buy Dell. For development, nothing touches a Precision in modularity, maintenance, you name it. It's just designed with the concept that someone is going to use this day in and day out, so hey! let's make swapping a keyboard easy.
The other day my wife's Samsung laptop had a liquid accident. 4 keys stopped working. I put on my IT hat, ordered the replacement keyboard and innocently started disassembling her unit.
 I have to do get a Dremel and remove plastic rivets? Seriously? I have to grind the laptop into pieces to remove the cover holding the keyboard in place.
I should change the title - designer needs his legs broken. I was thinking about a new Kia... I don't think so.
Seriously Samsung - what were you thinking?
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I did one of those a while ago, one with the keyboard sandwiched between two layers of plastic, which are stuck together through the holes.
And you have to take the entire motherboard out to get to it.
They don't go back together very well afterwards, can't get the plastic layers to stick/clip back together.
Very bad design for the one part that generally needs replacing a lot.
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It's very good design if you sell spare parts and replacement laptops...which Samsung do... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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Not that great, the experience has made sure I never buy a Samsung laptop in future.
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Amen!
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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It's not that model - I bought a Samsung NP300E5A - Core i7, etc, slapped a SSD into it. Fast little bugger. But getting to the keyboard? Oh my.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I was sure something like this'd exist. And laptops can be so horrible to take apart; that they're one of the few places I'll set my humbug aside and prefer video to text/static images in a how to.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Are you trying to figure out how to do the teardown yourself, following some idiot's youtube guide, or is that what the service manual says to do?
Unless it's #3, I'm 99% sure Sammy has successfully obfuscated the correct way to do it.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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Well, I've been into the laptop before to upgrade the hard drive. I was a bit mystified as to how to get the bottom cover off (hide the screws under the adhesive rubber feet, yeah, that's a good idea). In first working on this laptop, I was chatting with Samsung support. Trying to find the correct manual is a flipping nightmare.
Support actually told me, "I'm sorry, you cannot upgrade the hard drive in this laptop."
me: "You have got to be shitting me? Are you serious?"
There was a long pause in the chat  Finally I was sent a link to the manual... wrong manual. It took me 3 hours to get the correct one.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Nothing for your model (or anything with the same chassis) on Youtube? I'm a bit surprised by that since I've never had trouble finding multiple videos for anything I wanted to take appart.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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There was something on youtube, and they were griping as well. I just could not believe the approach.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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charlieg wrote: Samsung laptops - designer must die! be 'transferred' to Apple 
FTFY
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charlieg wrote: Seriously Samsung - what were you thinking?
You already know what they we're thinking... "we'll design it in such a way that the end user has to send it to use so we can charge them"
If it's not broken, fix it until it is
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oh shut up You are correct, that's what they were thinking.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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I take it just using an external USB keyboard wasn't an option?
I forget I'm using a laptop at home, between the external keyboard and 22" monitor.
Software Zen: delete this;
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It was, in fact, she stole my Logitech Quiet Touch keyboard... but it took too much room of her desk...
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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Obviously the lady needs a bigger desk, you selfish cad. 
Software Zen: delete this;
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You really contemplated buying a car that's called Killed In Action?
The language is JavaScript. that of Mordor, which I will not utter here
This is Javascript. If you put big wheels and a racing stripe on a golf cart, it's still a f***ing golf cart.
"I don't know, extraterrestrial?"
"You mean like from space?"
"No, from Canada."
If software development were a circus, we would all be the clowns.
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I once had a netbook that could use 2GB of RAM, but I tolerated using it with only 1, because adding the second stick would've involved taking it pretty much completely apart. Had they cut out a small access panel in the back to reach the memory slots (as on most laptops) since they were facing that side, it would've been a 30-second job.
charlieg wrote: Seriously Samsung - what were you thinking?
They're thinking you won't bother and will bring it in for them to deal with.
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All I'm thinking now is please God, let me get this back together correctly.
Charlie Gilley
<italic>Stuck in a dysfunctional matrix from which I must escape...
"Where liberty dwells, there is my country." B. Franklin, 1783
“They who can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety.” BF, 1759
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