Laptop Eval
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To Do :
Meeting on 10/29/11
- Look for documentation on how to find a hard drive. Big goal is to remove the HD and scrub the data.
- Locate archetypes of Laptops, and determine kinds of disassembly that each one requires (HD, screen, RAM, keyboard etc.)
- HD Complexity (higher=harder). Need to find a way to bring that across to the builders (have them pre-sort). Diagrams could also work.
- Screw covers on bottom
- Side loaded HD's
- Under keyboard
- Chasis split.
Solutions :
- Take step by step photos of each laptop disassembly and keep them on file. As a new laptop comes in compare to database of steps, if it's not in there a builder has to make one. We could sort them by the above archetypes.
- Need time to get it done.
- Spend time and we all take a different model and disassemble them step by step. begin with the "easiest" kind.
- Use egg cartons that hold the screws from step 1, 2, 3 etc to held with re-assembly.
- Generalized ideas of what to look for (i.e. the archetypes above), instead of using specific models.
Training :
- Prebuilds documentation is very easy to find.
- Need to find a balance between easily followable documentation, but easily referenced as well (i.e. on the wall in front of them).
- Binders are possible, but are bulky due to large number of models.
- Wiki is good, but requires another computer to run on it.
- Use a printout hung under the lights in laptops to make a "wall".
Challenges :
Hardest part for beginners is how to disassemble old laptops with breaking them.