[rescue] Dongles -- the greater evil - was Re: Keyboards -- the great evil

[Toby Thain]

On 02/02/13 9:55 PM, Lionel Peterson wrote:
> The laptops are used by teachers attached to smartboards and require audio.
> Relying on an add-on (read 'losable') adapter/dongle would lead to problems
> down the road.
>

Understood. I hate dongles myself, which is why I lose interest in 
current Macbook/Pros... :)

--Toby

> We have users that can get by without sound, and this one will be deployed to
> one of those users.
>
> Lionel
>
> On Feb 2, 2013, at 6:17 PM, Toby Thain<toby at telegraphics.com.au>  wrote:
>
>> On 02/02/13 5:00 PM, Lionel Peterson wrote:
>>> I have a friend who is replacing his daughter's laptop mainboard for $150,
> he
>>> paid about $400-450 two years ago for it. He thought about getting her a
> new
>>> laptop instead, but this one really suited her needs and the repair price
> is
>>> half the cost of a replacement laptop ($300-350).
>>>
>>> At work we have a teacher whose headphone jack broke on her unibody
> MacBook
>>> Pro - a repair that would necessitate an $850 mainboard replacement. Her
>>> laptop will NOT be repaired, it will be deployed to someone that doesn't
> need
>>> the headphone jack.
>>
>> That's very sensible, but there are probably also USB and Bluetooth audio
> adapters she could use.
>>
>> --Toby
>>
>>
>>>
>>> Lionel
>>>
>>> On Feb 2, 2013, at 4:54 PM, Bill Bradford<mrbill at mrbill.net>   wrote:
>>>
>>>> For $230 you could just about buy a "new"-to-you entire laptop.  Maybe
>>>> not the same model, but $230 for a *laptop keyboard* is insane.  As
>>>> mentioned, I've replaced them for numerous friends and never paid more
> than
>>> $20.
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