> "please give us soldered on memory and soldered on SSD" is not actually what we said, on our feedback forms to Apple, or IBM (X1 Carbon).

I don't know why you are lumping Lenovo ThinkPad in there. Their units are still highly repairable.

Even their thinnest model (X1 Carbon) still has the replaceable SSD. It accepts any standard NVME M.2 drive - https://www.windowscentral.com/how-upgrade-ssd-lenovo-thinkp...