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John Watlington wad at laptop.org
Tue Jun 3 20:45:45 EDT 2008


On Jun 3, 2008, at 6:56 PM, Kim Quirk wrote:

> John,
> We experienced quite a large number of 'software broken' laptops when
> we first starting shipping both in Uruguay and in the G1G1 program. I
> thought one of the things Ivan did in Uruguay was to help them reflash
> their laptops when they couldn't boot due to journal corruption or
> other software related reasons. Not sure if this is the same problem.
>
> How many do you think are recoverable with software reflash? Have they
> been recovering these, or have these fallen into one of their other
> piles of 'broken' laptops?

They seem to have pretty much 100% success with software reflash.
They weren't upset about the number returned for "software" repair
(although it costs them about $7 round trip for transportation).

Cheers,
wad

PS. I took this picture for the spectacular broken screen (note how  
the LCD
material leaked over the touchpad), but in the background you can see  
the
stack of machines awaiting reflash at the repair center...

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