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jm_l | 3 years ago

I think they make a totally fair critique. The quote you pulled out is specifically about the fact that battery replacement alone takes 162 pages to get through.

They also describe the manual as “ they’re in-depth, mostly logical, and well worth an additional repairability point” higher up in the article.

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rocket_surgeron|3 years ago

>The quote you pulled out is specifically about the fact that battery replacement alone takes 162 pages to get through.

But that's not true. The table of contents has links to the small subset of pages needed to be read to replace the battery.

There are over a dozen chapters and the page count includes parts lists, safety and regulatory notices, and information about tools.

My Webster's Unabridged Dictionary has 2,129 pages before it gets to the back matter. If I want to look up a word I don't open it to page 1 and start reading.

Same for replacing a battery.

1. Open PDF 2. Scroll to table of contents 3. Click on "Battery" 4. Read 14 pages, each with 1-2 steps, about how to replace the battery

Not 162.

Besides, with the text density of those pages, they should be thought of more as "slides". A 162-slide presentation that covers the tools, part numbers, safety information, and step-by-step procedures for replacing parts that you can skip around in is not intimidating.

Of course, my perspective may be skewed. My expectation is for comprehensive documentation with the hundred page behemoths that Sun used to produce back in the Sparc era for replacing a frame buffer card being the bare minimum acceptable level of documentation.

mminer237|3 years ago

You must be reading a different manual than what they're talking about.

https://manuals.info.apple.com/MANUALS/2000/MA2085/en_US/mac...

You'll note that at the beginning of the three-page battery section, it says that you must have already removed every other part from the other 159 pages. The battery section is basically just "whatever's left doesn't come apart, so replace all that for a new battery". I think saying it takes a 162-page manual is fair.