Comments for ecoIron on OLPCs at http://www.ecogeek.org , comment 1 to 1 out of 1 comments http://www.ecogeek.org Wed, 19 Jun 2013 01:38:54 +0100 FeedCreator 1.7.3 http://www.ecogeek.org/efficiency/361#comment-1173 ... such as some found in Asia, most of malfunctioning/broken mechanical and electronic devices are repaired to usable states, many times before they're discarded. Most of the time they manage to restore the repaired items to their original working conditions. They manage to do this for everything ranging from cars to computers. The more repair-friendly computers are the unbranded ones that are assembled from scratch. Fixing their standard components allow technicians to gain the re-applicable repairing skills useful when fixing similar components from different manufacturers. Laptops aren't the most repair-friendly devices since they're all tightly packed in a small casing and their internal designs tend to be manufacturer dependent. I haven't yet seen a OLPC but I hope they're built to be repair-friendly without too much soldering on the printed circuitboards etc. One more important thing is the lifespan of the system. Sure, it's $100 or something but people probably could buy a repairable/upgradable desktop in these countries for not much more. It won't mean that poor hopeful families will end up with short-lived laptops after investing one month's salary on each but, it will probably take like a while and one more generation of OLPC notebooks to gain the trust of these private individual buyers in the intended market. - GTW Sat, 25 Nov 2006 12:06:13 +0100