iFixit Guides to DIY Laptop Repair.
Are Apple's DIY options not juicy enough for you?
If you really like getting deeper into your own Mac hardware repair, you'll probably love a collection of Fixit Guides created by iFixit.
These guides are for serious do-it-yourself Apple laptop repairs. Each Fixit Guide has detailed disassembly instructions that walk you through the process of easily accessing and replacing components in your PowerBook or iBook. These guides are well written and well illustrated. iFixit has even developed new instruction manuals for Apple's latest MacBook and MacBook Pros.
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Jasson Lewellen, CreativeTechs's resident laptop repair guru, had this to say about iFixit's guides:
"These are generally good guides, but this is not something I'd recommend to most users just because how tricky the insides of a laptop can be. Most of the procedures detailed in these guides will void any kind of warranty. Which means if anything goes wrong, Apple will impose a hefty charge to fix it. So, aside from my first concern about people who don't know what they are doing getting inside and damaging their laptops, for those who can or want to, these are great instructions, almost as good as having the official apple service manual at hand."
Source: We ran across these guides in February, and have been debating whether to include them in a tip since then.
Gratuitous Self-Promotion: This may be a good time to mention that CreativeTechs offers full onsite AppleCare and warranty repairs for some larger Seattle-area creative teams. This is pretty new. We currently provide onsite service for Amazon, Costco, K2, and the Seattle Sonics. If you know a larger coporate creative team that could benifit from easier onsite hardware repair, we have a short webpage describing CreativeTechs' Apple Authorized Service Provider option.
Comments
Here are more disassembly guides for you guys, this time instructions for Toshiba notebooks. Toshiba doesn’t share laptop disassembly guides with general public, so it might be very handy if you decide to fix Toshiba laptop yourself.
Posted by: Laptop Freak | January 17, 2007 02:04 PM
Get the guides and buy somewhere else. An order I made never arrived and they refused to solve the issue.
Posted by: iFixit victim | February 8, 2007 03:45 AM
I'm the CEO of iFixit. We work very hard to resolve *every* customer complaint. Customer service is extremely important to us.
In regards to the previous post: We shipped the customer their order twice. The postal service lost their order, twice.
The customer finally (understandably) got fed up and requested a refund, which we gave him, along with a coupon for his trouble. There were some mistakes made by a support rep communicating with the customer, which is why he posted this note. The customer is now satisfied with our service.
-Kyle Wiens
CEO, iFixit
1-866-61-FIXIT
Posted by: Kyle Wiens | February 13, 2007 10:14 AM