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> “More than 80 percent of our devices will be able to be repaired at the customer,” Lenovo executive Luca Rossi told the Canalys EMEA Forum 2023, according to The Register.

> “Batteries, SSD, many things will not any longer be sealed into the product but will be available for the customer to be to repaired on site and then save a lot of waste,” he reportedly said.

I guess something's something.

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I never got how we all just accepted non-user replaceable battery devices with phones, laptops, and tablets. The main reason why people replace those devices is the battery. Its so eco of them.

Because the repairable laptops were Thinkpad-class devices which weighed quite a bit and had fucking terrible touchpads.

When slim Ultrabooks (or whatever they were called) started appearing, those of us who actually use our laptops like a laptop (i.e. we take them places) loved how thin and light they were. Imagine fitting more than just your laptop into a backpack!

It's perfectly possible to have slim ultrabooks with replacable batteries. We used to have phones with replaceable batteries that were thinner than than even current gen laptops.

The hell do touchpads have to do with this? Besides, the T430 had one of if not the best touchpad I ever used.

The question was: how did we accept this change? Answer: laptops that were non-repairable were far better in various ways.

Now we've got good at all those things, the next step might be reintroducing owner-replaceability of batteries etc, but there's no point pretending a lot of people didn't prefer the advantages of the sealed ones.

We don't, or we didn't all accept it. It was forced upon us, due to the masses not giving a f. The masses are just so uninformed, that they would rather throw cash out every 2 years (if not shorter) to buy a new device. The manufacturers of course like that behavior and reinforce it. The sheer masses of uninformed people create a huge incentive for them to continue this way.

Laptop like it's 1995-2014 all over again.

It's not like you will be able to upgrade the CPU. Even RAM isn't mentioned.

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