SSDs changed everything. What’s to wear out other than fan bearings?
SSDs changed everything. What’s to wear out other than fan bearings?
Meanwhile, your Amiga has this enormous motherboard that's full of DIP-size ICs, many of them socketed, and even with your schoolboy soldering you can extract the ones that ain't. And it almost cetainly doesn't matter if you're hoping to get their replacements from an Amiga that's completely different, because Commodore just didn't have the money to make N different versions of their chips, even assuming you're trying to replace the custom ones in the first place.
Or was it just the disk drive that fucked up, or one of the power supply capacitors, or something like that? - well, why didn't you say! No problem. Plenty of those about!
P.S.: but, all that said: what I was thinking about, when it comes to a modern desktop, is that you'd just replace parts as much as possible, repairing things as required, then when it finally dies just buy another one and restore from your last backup. But while bench repair is more of an option with a desktop than a laptop, in either case you probalby wouldn't actually bother, and you'd just throw it away and buy a new one at the first sign of trouble. So in fact, maybe it doesn't make much of a difference overall.
(First was the mighty Sinclair Spectrum+. Whywhywhywhywhywhywhy did I sell that thing.)
| “What is the difference between your laptop, model 344 revision 001, and another laptop, model 344, revision 002?”
This is one of the things I despise about the Windows world. Say you have an HP EliteBook 9460m. Sounds like quite a specific model number. You want the graphics drivers. You go to HP.com, navigate Support, plug in your model number ... and are given the option of the Intel or the NVIDIA drivers.
What the hell? Do HP not know which one they put in this machine? Was it just a crap-shoot at the factory? That’s bonkers, in my book.