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Section for off-site manuals?

Along with the FAQ, dell gives us manuals to take apart our laptops to fix it, I'm not sure about any other manufacturers, but this is where you can find dell's manuals for all their laptops and for MOST of them they have a service manual on how to fix and replace various parts of the laptop.

Basically I'm wondering if theres a way to inform all the readers that they should check dell's support site (and any other manufacturer if it applies to them) if they provide service manuals? or link the device pages to the manuals?

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The device page is the central reference point to all repair information about that device on the net. Absolutely, add as many links as you can find to other information online. For example, our Dell Inspiron 6000 repair page should have a link to Dell's Inspiron 6000 Service Manual.

We eventually want to have the best information about repair in our guide framework, where it uses a standard format and is guaranteed to be free forever.

By the way, Dell and HP are far and away the most responsible manufacturers in this regard. Could you imagine Apple having a service manual like that on their site? We hope that by creating a groundswell of community repair content, manufacturers will be pressured into contributing back to the community and being an active part of making their devices last longer. I'm certainly interested in paying more for things that are repairable. (That's why my Honda Accord is worth more than my Ford Explorer— the former is easy to work on and the latter is not.)

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So should we link it, or migrate what they say onto our site? Because I can see how the goal in the end would be to have everything on ifixit's database, but migrating all that would seem tedious.

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Linking is definitely the way to go, along with perhaps some paraphrasing. Copying and pasting would be a copyright violation - don't do it.

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That's actually a really good point, because Dell does a really really good job of making service and repair manuals, the same level of quality as iFixit, when someone asks about a Dell device, it's very easy to link them to a great guide that works. I have no experience with HP though, but I can definitely tell you that Dell takes care of their customers a lot better than Apple does. That's probably a good idea, to link the guides to the device pages, direct copying is just illegal.

Edit: So going with Kyle's idea, I made this suggestion to Dell's IdesStorm suggestion board, it'd be really great if all of us went and voted for it so maybe it'd get some attention.

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Right. The best thing for everyone would be if Dell would open-license their service manuals so we could migrate them into the system and allow the community to improve them.

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That would be nice, ever thought of asking them? It would probably take a tone of work to migrate them, there are just so many. But the end result would be great, not only a ton of guides for Macs, but even more guides for Dells

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So I submitted an idea to their IdeaStorm site for ideas for Dell, basically saying this, if everyone from iFixit could go here, and vote on it that would be great and perhaps it could become popular.

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It's interesting that you think that Dell's support is better than Apple's, because Apple has gotten the best ratings for support for years. (see Consumer Reports)

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