13 Screws...

[G8racingfool]

For anyone who hasn't worked on the HP Envy M6 series laptops yet, there are 13 screws that hold the keyboard to the top cover. 13 friggin screws! This is after you have to pull the bottom case, battery, motherboard, USB/Audio board and unscrew/flip the LCD hinges up. Seriously, did they think somebody was going to steal this thing? Oh, and beyond that there's an additional 2 screws that hold the keyboard itself to the bracket. Overall, there's a total of 46 screws that need to be removed in order to perform a simple keyboard swap (and the best part is, these keyboards are prone to failure).

So yea, consumer laptops absolutely suck.

 

[Slaters Kustum Machines]

For anyone who hasn't worked on the HP Envy M6 series laptops yet, there are 13 screws that hold the keyboard to the top cover. 13 friggin screws! This is after you have to pull the bottom case, battery, motherboard, USB/Audio board and unscrew/flip the LCD hinges up. Seriously, did they think somebody was going to steal this thing? Oh, and beyond that there's an additional 2 screws that hold the keyboard itself to the bracket. Overall, there's a total of 46 screws that need to be removed in order to perform a simple keyboard swap (and the best part is, these keyboards are prone to failure).

So yea, consumer laptops absolutely suck.

Yikes. I do appreciate business grade laptops.

 

[cam w]

For anyone who hasn't worked on the HP Envy M6 series laptops yet, there are 13 screws that hold the keyboard to the top cover. 13 friggin screws! This is after you have to pull the bottom case, battery, motherboard, USB/Audio board and unscrew/flip the LCD hinges up. Seriously, did they think somebody was going to steal this thing? Oh, and beyond that there's an additional 2 screws that hold the keyboard itself to the bracket. Overall, there's a total of 46 screws that need to be removed in order to perform a simple keyboard swap (and the best part is, these keyboards are prone to failure).

So yea, consumer laptops absolutely suck.

Thanks for the teardown link!

 

[YeOldeStonecat]

...though you were going to say 13 screws left over after you put it back together. That's when I just tell the client I thought their laptop was "over-engineered" and didn't need 'em all!

 

[Diggs]

An iMac keyboard alone has 55+ screws. They are about 1/3 the size of a grain of rice. Pffft!

 

[mikeroq]

Not as bad as a Macbook Air keyboard with 40 screws and 52 rivets.

 

[RockIT Man]

...though you were going to say 13 screws left over after you put it back together. That's when I just tell the client I thought their laptop was "over-engineered" and didn't need 'em all!

I was thinking the same thing! My heart sank when I read the title.

Overall, there's a total of 46 screws that need to be removed in order to perform a simple keyboard swap

The worst keyboard I've done was a 2012 MacBook Pro. Normally, I would just replace the upper case, but this was my wife's computer and I didn't feel like paying for that part, so I did a keyboard only replacement. I believe I counted nearly 80 screws total. Needless to say, my carpal tunnel was acting up the next few days.

 

[G8racingfool]

...though you were going to say 13 screws left over after you put it back together. That's when I just tell the client I thought their laptop was "over-engineered" and didn't need 'em all!

Yea... if I had that many screws left after putting a system back together I'd hang it up and go work as a trash collector or something lol.

The worst keyboard I've done was a 2012 MacBook Pro. Normally, I would just replace the upper case, but this was my wife's computer and I didn't feel like paying for that part, so I did a keyboard only replacement. I believe I counted nearly 80 screws total. Needless to say, my carpal tunnel was acting up the next few days.

And what does it really gain them Apple to do so? I mean seriously, they could've put 10% of the screws in there that they did and it would've held up just as well. Why waste the extra money and resources to do that?

What are the odds that both were designed by the same product designer/engineer who just has a thing for keyboard fasteners?

 

[RockIT Man]

What are the odds that both were designed by the same product designer/engineer who just has a thing for keyboard fasteners?

There are a lot of strange fetishes out there. This could certainly be one of them. Maybe he enjoys watching the YouTube teardown vids? Ha!

 

[trevm999]

Not as bad as a Macbook Air keyboard with 40 screws and 52 rivets.

The difference is that there's no official Apple teardown guide that's going to tell you to do that

 

[RockIT Man]

@trevm999, I clicked your link. Well done, sir. Well done.

 

[Neal]

The difference is that there's no official Apple teardown guide that's going to tell you to do that

I love the fact that Apple expects you to replace the entire top case just to replace the keyboard. What a waste of all that aluminum!

 

[Krynn72]

Yeah, you guys can complain all you want about how many screws there are. At least they're not riveted in.

@trevm999, I clicked your link. Well done, sir. Well done.

lol, I never noticed this.

 

[G8racingfool]

Yeah, you guys can complain all you want about how many screws there are. At least they're not riveted in.

Don't give them any ideas...

 

[timeshifter]

An iMac keyboard alone has 55+ screws. They are about 1/3 the size of a grain of rice. Pffft!

iMac keyboard?

 

[Krynn72]

Don't give them any ideas...

Oh its coming. Apples been doing it for a couple years now, so the rest of the industry will follow suit soon enough. Then comes soldered on SSDs.

 

[Diggs]

iMac keyboard?

Oops! Good Catch. Not sure where my head was at - and I still try to avoid MacBook keyboards......

 

[G8racingfool]

Then comes soldered on SSDs.

See: Chromebooks