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Becoming a Palm Technician
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May 11, 2005, 04:18 PM
 
I am a small time Mac technician and I would like to expand a little bit and also become a Palm technician. (I've already taken some older ones apart and it doesn't look so complicated.) Does anyone have any recommendations for good books or web sites that explain both software and hardware troubleshooting and repair.

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May 11, 2005, 05:17 PM
 
Considering how PDA sales are being cannibalized to fancy cellphones that sync with computers, I'm not so sure this is the best market to be entering!

The other problem is parts. Like PowerBook parts, they're hard to come by, and expensive.

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May 13, 2005, 02:09 AM
 
In my case, for the time being it makes sense. A large company not to far from me went out of business and liquidated all of there assets. Among them where about a thousand Palms from their employees. I bought the whole lot (for dirt cheap). The majority of them where Palm V's and Vx's (about 600). The rest where from the m1xx series and m5xx series with a handful of original zire's. Of the thousand, about 25% of them are still working, but of the ones not working, by combining them you can get some working ones (may guess about another 25%-35%). For example some work fine but have a broken screen, others don't work, but have a good screen. You take the good screen and put it on the one with a broken screen and you now have a functional Palm. I figured that since I have so many Palms, it is worthwhile to do it correctly and I'll get enough experience to add that to my list of services.
     
   
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