Reply 24120 of 27172, by TheAbandonwareGuy
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Kahenraz wrote on 2023-04-02, 07:09:Most laptops have a lot of different screws and are hard to disassemble fully down to the motherboard. There are only a few different ones in this laptop, and their use is obvious enough that someone with experience doesn't even need to keep track of where they go. There is primarily only one screw length, with very few of other sizes.
I haven't disassembled any other Dell laptops from around this vintage to compare, but the Inspiron 5555 series is a piece of cake.
I can remember when Dell lead the way for screwless desktops in the 90s. It was a real novelty at the time.
Mid 2000s Dells are some of the easiest to work on computers ever. Like Some of them even the motherboard is on a tray and can be pulled by removing a single screw.
Their laptops during that time frame were also very easy to tear down. I can tear my XPS M1710 down and put it back together in like 30 minutes (very quick for a desktop replacement laptop from that time frame)
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