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Apple and Lenovo have the least repairable laptops, analysis finds (arstechnica.com)
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[–] mr_anny@sopuli.xyz 12 points 1 day ago (2 children)

iFixit says different about Lenovo.

https://www.ifixit.com/repairability/laptop-repairability-scores

[–] artyom@piefed.social 11 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (2 children)

iFixit is honestly terrible with these rankings. They seem to be based completely on how easy they are to take apart and reassemble, and nothing to do with availability or cost of components, or whether the components themselves are serialized.

[–] RandomStickman@fedia.io 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

So, we primarily award points for replacement parts priced at 25% of MSRP or less (exclusive of tax and shipping, because those vary regionally).

As a historical aside, although we’ve had our eye on this for a while, we only formally added replacement parts to the iFixit scorecard fairly recently—it’s factored in for many (but not all) of the devices we scored during the past year. We’re updating how repairability scores are displayed to help make that distinction clear.

https://www.ifixit.com/News/75533/how-ifixit-scores-repairability

[–] artyom@piefed.social 2 points 1 day ago

Well it's good to know that they added that. But don't the OEMs decide what MSRP is?

[–] slowcakes@programming.dev 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Their job is to sell tools to fix stuff, did you even read the ars article, it's just clickbait. Lenovo failed because they didn't provide repairability score for their laptop models. nothing to do with if it's actual repairable or not.

I've repaired Lenovo before, aftermarket items all available, change screens, keyboard, battery, simple stuff only though, no issues, everything is designed so it's easy to change.

I would not say the same about HP or DELL, shit enterprise laptops, and the consumer ones are worse.

[–] mr_anny@sopuli.xyz 1 points 1 day ago

Yeah. I can say the same about most HP laptops starting with pro.

Yet my oldest still on use laptop is HP EliteBook 2560p is quite the different. The bottom cover opens completely without screw driver and even the cpu fan in it's entirety is out in the open to be able to clean every now and then.

[–] artyom@piefed.social 1 points 1 day ago

Their job is to sell tools to fix stuff

And?

did you even read the ars article

The article was not relevant to my statement.

I've repaired Lenovo before, aftermarket items all available

I wasn't talking about Lenovo.

[–] xSikes@feddit.online 2 points 1 day ago

One model verses the hundreds of other products they been selling. Also if not enough people purchase this model, they stop parts production and kill the model line. It will be like it never happened.