Durable Laptop Batteries
Work setup (packed)
Work setup (packed)
Image by tychay
This is what it looks like when I’m gone-sorta.
The sorta part is normally my stuff and computer is in my bag and that bag is gone.
In the guts of the machine
Image by MeganMorris
I skipped the step in the guide that said to disconnect the microphone and power cables from the logic board because there was a change of pulling the entire socket off the logicboard, thus rendering it dead (since I’m not practiced in the art of micro-soldering logicboards, I did not want to chance this). Instead, when I pulled the upper case away from the lower case, I just balanced the upper against the edge of the lower. I put the tape and later the battery behind it to hold it upright and close to the edge as to not pull on the cables coming from the microphone and power sockets.
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There _is_ no better stapler than the red Swingline stapler. :->
("Excuse me, I believe you have my stapler… "
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0151804/quotes )
@Civilized Explorer:
Okay, not better, but easier.
The one I have at home is the Paper Pro stapler, which is the spring loaded version of Staples’s lever loaded the One-Touch.
Miller Lite: The official beer of Megan Morris, PowerBook repairwoman extraordinaire
Please review the tags: That was not my beer!! I actually didn’t drink or eat anything while I was doing this, and if I’d noticed at the time that Ian had set his beer down that close to the machine I probably would have had a heart attack.
Never realized the PB G4′s needed to be so fully ripped apart just to get at the HD.
I recently replaced the stock HD in my 2007 white MacBook and all I had to do was remove the battery and one small metal strip to get at the HD. Took maybe 7 min total.
BTW.. I find it good practice to not have open beverages around computer hardware. Especially when it’s all so bare in this state. Your beer or not.. it shouldn’t be so close by just waiting to be tipped over.
[http://www.flickr.com/photos/zen_state] Oh yeah, I’ve ripped hard drives out of dead MacBooks and it’s super-easy. I don’t know WTF Apple was thinking with the PowerBook.
And I have the same practice with beverages—like I said above, I didn’t realize it was there until I saw this picture. Luckily it was just there for 10 seconds or so.