Here's an interesting story on scammers based in India How a podcaster managed to confront his tech support scammer, in person Here's the podcast: Reply All #102 Long Distance its quite funny!
The problem we face is the breadth of the different hardware within IFIXIT. While I am more focused on answering Mac related stuff, there is the full gamut of PC's from Dell, HP, Lenovo and all of the others. Some of the basic designs hold true across all of the them but the way one repairs things can be very different do to the nature of the design of one product Vs another. This is where the skills of a given product need to be focused on. Within BICSI we realized the skills of different operations of installing a cabling system needed different levels of skills and in some cases a prerequisite of skills needed to be obtained to then get to the next level. Unlike BICSI we have a bigger tangle of skills needed and we don't have the support of the hardware makers. While CompTIA is a very good framework on general skills it doesn't get in the finesse of a given products repair. To be clear here we are talking about how to validate if someone has the skills to fix a given product from a business perspective. We...
@kaykay - Check this out! Apple Exchanging Some 2012 and Early 2013 MacBook Pros Needing Battery Service With Newer Models. Talk about a big Opps! Apple stepped right into it!
Try the EU store front: IFIXIT UK see if its cheaper that way. Living in Australia does complicate shipping and you have both a GST and duty tax on imported goods. The good news is you can recover some of them using this form: Import Duty Refund
There is very little difference between the original and the 2nd gen unit. Here's the original teardown: [guide|52599|iPad Pro 12.9" Teardown]. The only differences is the specs of the SoC, RAM, the cameras and a brighter display.
@mayer - I agree! We have a group of younger folks who have a very different view of life. Not much we can do to alter that. But, we can try to pull this 'loose' dialog out, which is were I was hoping we could open up a more 'chatty' space so the thrust is on the answer not the chat people appear to want to do within the Q/A space. What I'm hoping we can have a two-way link that links the chat between the two spaces. So in this case the argument on using Rice would be the chat. A focused answer on why it fails to work would be the answer as well as what is needed to clean the device.
While I can't answer where your package is, I can tell you from experience USPS is the better! I live in the city and any package thats left at ones door grows legs and runs off! USPS has access to our building and internal mail boxes unlike UPS or FedEx, so they can secure the package within the building and even put it into our mail boxes if it's not too big. Some building even have large package boxes as well. I always insist on USPS delivery.
@sam - For the life of me I can't tell if the bare pads in your 21.5" iMac teardown is wider than what Apple was using in the previous models or the newer wider SSD's Apple is using in the function key MacBook Pro 13" Can you fill us in or is it still something different! Thanks!
From what I see the iMac Pro does have socketed RAM. But no access door to get to it so you'll need to completely tear the system apart to upgrade it. It also looks like the CPU is soldered! For such an expensive system it's not user friendly. Can't figure out where the SSD is located or if it's using the newer wide interface the function key MacBook Pro uses. I'm sure someone will come up with an egg cooker for the fan exhaust as this boy will be running very hot! ;-} The iMac 21" is soldered CPU & RAM, The standard 27" does have upgradable RAM. From what I see it's using the same setup as the older model (access door in the back). Nothing new in the ports in the MacBook Pro's (I was hopping Apple would give us the ports back). CPU, RAM & SSD are all soldered down! In the fall we'll start moving to Windows systems! Thats over 500 systems! Sorry Apple you lost another big one! Hello HP! Laptops, Desktops & even Workstations with ThreadRipper!
