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Taking a Prime apart
Message #1 Posted by Tony Duell on 13 Nov 2013, 3:10 a.m.

I've posted a few photographs of the inside of an HP Prime here :

http://www.flickr.com/photos/tony_duell/sets/72157637622825283/

You didn't think I'd have one and not take a screwdriver to it, did you?

      
Re: Taking a Prime apart
Message #2 Posted by Namir on 13 Nov 2013, 3:43 a.m.,
in response to message #1 by Tony Duell

You broke it ... you buy it!!!!

:-)

Namir

      
Re: Taking a Prime apart
Message #3 Posted by Erwin Ried on 13 Nov 2013, 4:25 a.m.,
in response to message #1 by Tony Duell

Why do you think the main chip has red epoxy? Thermal stress?

Thanks to your images I can see the reason why the ON button has a slight different design (due the screw hole). I feel this button already slightly different than the other buttons, I hope it don't break like as in a 49g+

      
Re: Taking a Prime apart
Message #4 Posted by Daniel Diggelmann on 15 Nov 2013, 5:34 a.m.,
in response to message #1 by Tony Duell

Thanks Tony for the insight. It looks very nicely engineered.

      
Re: Taking a Prime apart
Message #5 Posted by hugh steers on 16 Nov 2013, 11:47 a.m.,
in response to message #1 by Tony Duell

there's more here

http://steaminghacker.blogspot.co.uk/

coincidentally, also dismantled by Tony :-)


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