| ▲ | Doohickey-d 4 hours ago | |
This does happen: for example in Macbook repair, it is common to buy defective motherboards, in order to salvage the chips off them (which are apple-specific, hence not purchasable elsewhere). Those boards often come from China, and often have holes drilled in them, I guess exactly to prevent them from being repaired. It's a shame, because some of those boards could (and would, they are valuable enough) be fully repaired by a skilled repair person. Instead, the chips are picked off and the rest goes to waste. I did buy a batch once that didn't have holes drilled, and they all turned out to have all sorts of strange, often random issues, so I suspect those were RMAs that somehow "fell off the back of a truck" and escaped the drilling. | ||
| ▲ | krackers 2 hours ago | parent | next [-] | |
There is this insane video where someone actually does repair one of the prototype boards that have been drilled | ||
| ▲ | p1anecrazy 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-] | |
Why do you think the ones with holes didn‘t have the same defect? | ||