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Geek: Repair, replace or casemod?
Aug. 21st, 2007 09:06 amMy Nokia 770 web tablet has a dead spot on the screen. It needs repairing or it's a chore to use - which means a new screen. Now, when-new the thing was a couple of hundred pounds, but since the 800 came out, the value of the 770 has plunged and they're on ebay for under £100. I'd be amazed if a screen replacement out-of-warranty cost less than the replacement cost of the device. The screens themselves are available for €119; once you add postage to that it's close to the replacement of the whole unit. And I want to casemod this anyway into a Clockwork Confabulator.
So, sports fans, does yours truly:
1: Just casemod the existing device, accepting that it is an end-of-life skunkworks product and that I'll have to live with the dead spot. By the time I actually finish the project it'll be more obsolete than a Palm 3 anyway...
2: Replace the screen (risking bricking the device) then casemod away?
3: Get a second unit from ebay, and casemod the new or old one as takes my fancy.
So, sports fans, does yours truly:
1: Just casemod the existing device, accepting that it is an end-of-life skunkworks product and that I'll have to live with the dead spot. By the time I actually finish the project it'll be more obsolete than a Palm 3 anyway...
2: Replace the screen (risking bricking the device) then casemod away?
3: Get a second unit from ebay, and casemod the new or old one as takes my fancy.
Isn't this a pretty laptop mod? Marie Robinette Kowal's prettified laptop (casemod-lite, neh?) as seen on 
