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Hi All: Excuse the general question. I want to learn about how computers work, and specifically to learn repair. I am a Mac person, and was thinking about buying some “parts only” laptops on EBay to experiment on. But…I am unable to find beginner books on learning laptop repair. I tried to see if Apple offers courses, but no luck. ifixit is great for specific repairs, but how do I start to learn? I’ve used Macs since my first SE/30 (and TRS-80 before that, and PDP/8e in high school), so that tells you I’m old. Any ideas? Thanks!!
If you’re talking about macs repairs specifically logic boards repairs you need: 1- knowledge of basic electronics, how the circuits works, components knowledge how they work in a circuit. 2- learn how to read and interpret schematics. Download the popular macs schematics and boardview files and software (Open Boardview (free), FlexBV (Paul Daniels excellent software, must buy license). 3- Tools: hot air station, good solder iron with fine tips, multimeter, microscope, computer to read schematics, and many little accessories (flux, jumper wires, air extractor, tweezers, etc) 4- Watch a lot of youtube videos: Louis Rossmann is the reference for macs logic board repairs. 5- Practice on dead boards to learn the good technics. 6- Lot of time and patience before being good at it but what a joy when you get your first fan spin. 7- The latest Macbooks models are harder to repair so I don’t know if there’s a future in the macs repair ???? Good luck !!
I can recommend that you buy a MacBook and learn from the video tutorials on YouTube. That helped me. You may also have questions about quantitative data and other mathematical questions. I recommend using the service https://plainmath.net/post-secondary/sta… with math questions for students. It also has handy tools for calculations.
