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I decided to foolishly glance at the service manual for my current Fucking Laptop and YOU HAVE TO REMOVE THE CPU HEATSINK TO SERVICE THE KEYBOARD!?

removing the keyboard is easy! just
1. remove the back cover
2. the battery
3. all the RAM
4. the SSD
5. WLAN card
6. CPU heatsink
7. power adapter port
8. screen. you gotta remove the screen.
9. the main motherboard? fuck it.
10. take out the bios battery. yeah, that one has to go too.
11. remove the separate board for the power-button/fingerprint thing
12. disconnect two ribbon cables
13. 19/21 screws depending on color.
14. five more screws because fuck you
15. and you're done!

@foone Fundamental rule of product mechanical engineering: all wear components must be directly accessible and removable without removing any non-wear components.

@dalias @foone frequent maintenance items should be easily accessed without disturbing all the other shit.