Post by ~misfit~Post by Computer Nerd KevPost by ~misfit~I still find it odd to call 10MB 'excessively large'.
Well it's for the sake of looking at a few of the pages
for a minute or two at the most.
Yeah, but if someone owns said model of laptop there's a
good chance they'll need the rest of it sometime.
Sure. I keep Service Manual PDFs for most of my laptops, where
they are available. For me though, that's a different situation
to what this was. I provided the link for the laptop owner.
Post by ~misfit~Post by Computer Nerd KevI suppose my objection is mainly
ideological. On the other hand, I avoid Youtube videos
like the plague, so perhaps it's more download paranoia.
I had the same thing until a year or two ago when it became
affordable to have an ISP plan that left so much headroom I
started using it....
OK.
Post by ~misfit~Post by Computer Nerd KevStill in both cases I would be a lot happier with a simple
no- nonsense webpage with links allowing you to select
what needs to be downloaded.
That would be very complicated for Lenovo to run though.
This way they provide all of the info the owner of a
certain laptop will ever need in a single 'download once'
package.
Of course. Plus these things aren't really meant for owners
anyway, rather for your local authorised serviceman at the
computer shop. Lenovo are good, they put the service manuals on
their site. On the other hand Toshiba won't even let you put
them up on your own server:
http://www.tim.id.au/blog/2012/11/10/toshiba-laptop-service-
manuals-and-the-sorry-state-of-copyright-law/
If through some form of divine intervention, witchcraft or
whatever, I ended up with a say on how these things were
published, I would want a PDF of the document sent to the
servicemen _and_ a HTML version. It won't happen. Unless the
world comes under a CNK dictatorship, that is.
Post by ~misfit~No need to be on-line to access it (which bugs me
no end - is it Dell who do it like that? Really annoying if
I don't have said laptop on-line yet...).
Sure, I'd never want the PDF version to go away. If they did
that, I'd be saving the webpages to disk (for laptops that I
own).
Post by ~misfit~Also though, if you want more detail Lenovo has individual
streaming video service guides for removal of various parts
- including parts like the LCD display. (They re-arranged
their website recently so I can't give you a link as an
example - mine are broken now.)
Hmm, from big PDFs to videos. Things aren't really getting any
better for me. Still, I'm glad Lenovo are making the effort for
people doing repairs themselves, I wondered if this approach was
only going to be short-term as the IBM influence faded away.
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