Just hit 500 board repairs in 18 months at my shop in Austin

I was going through my repair logs last night for the IRS stuff and realized I crossed 500 boards fixed since I started my little shop off South Lamar. That number felt huge to me because when I started I was just doing friends' broken game consoles in my garage. Most of them are laptop motherboards and old Xbox power supplies, but a good chunk are those weird HP all-in-ones nobody wants to touch. Has anyone else kept a running count and been surprised when you hit a certain number?

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felix_bailey4528d ago

Wait is that really how the numbers break down though? I don't think most phones or toasters are getting repaired at a dedicated board shop like mine. The stuff I see is mostly midrange laptops people can't afford to replace and weird industrial control boards from local businesses. You'd be surprised how many HP all-in-ones from like 2018 are still perfectly fine except for one tiny cracked capacitor. That's not really planned obsolescence, that's just cheap components and bad luck.

miles_grant3528d ago

Honestly that's wild but it makes sense when you think about how nothing's built to last anymore. Seems like everything from phones to toasters is designed to break just past the warranty date, so people like you are the ones keeping the world running.