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jackdoe an hour ago

> then hundreds of dollars to service when they break

Can you explain what do you mean by that? It is quite rare to see broken trrs jack on a laptop, at least I have never experienced one, nor on walkman or anything getting heavy plug/unplug use.

I thought it is an issue in reducing the cost to manufacture the case or something.

scarlehoff 21 minutes ago | parent | next [-]

The jack actually broke on my old xps. Changing it with an aliexpress replacement took about 15 minutes and something like 3€

So yeah, they break, but they are (or used to be?) quite cheap to fix (and this was one of the super thin 13" xps)

Marsymars 14 minutes ago | parent | prev | next [-]

I’ve never had one break due to heavy use, but broke one on my work desktop due to forgetting I was wearing headphones and yanking on it when I got up.

3eb7988a1663 an hour ago | parent | prev [-]

Does anyone even do repairs anymore? Swap a motherboard and that's it.

j16sdiz 29 minutes ago | parent [-]

So... swapping $100 component for a $0.3 break?

Doesn't this make including the jack even less justifiable?

guelo 23 minutes ago | parent [-]

Or don't swap it and live without the jack. But I have never seen a broken 3.5mm port but I've seen many, many broken or flaky USB-C ports.