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| - | [* black] When we're talking repairability, we take a lot of factors into account—including how easy or hard it is to perform routine maintenance, like cleaning a fan. |
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| - | [* black] A point in the XPS 13's favor: You can open it up and blow air through your fan pretty easily. |
| - | [* black] Point against: If you want to replace a busted fan, you can't get there from here. Gotta remove the entire system board first. |
| - | [* icon_note] Let's just go ahead and do that—it's time to look at the silicon powering this thing. |
| + | [* black] Full disclosure: Once we got inside the XPS, we sort of started cheating on our homework—by following Dell's [http://downloads.dell.com/Manuals/all-products/esuprt_laptop/esuprt_xps_laptop//xps-13-9343-laptop_Service%20Manual_en-us.pdf|service manual|new_window=true] as a disassembly guide. What can we say, we love repair documentation. |
| + | [* black] So when we got to the bit instructing us to remove the system board to take out the fan, we were a bit confused, amused, and eventually miffed. |
| + | [* icon_note] It looks to us like with some more detailed instructions, it would be pretty easy to skip removing the entire board and just pop up a corner. [https://www.ifixit.com/|If only there were some sort of freely available repair documentation platform available on the internet|new_window=true]. |