I use iFixit’s guides all the time, so I would hope that their score isn’t affected by it. I’ve seen them as being fairly good at their role.
pr06lefs@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
Just a lil nitpick: article is by iFixit who is a Lenovo business partner. So perhaps less objective than one might hope.
lobut@lemmy.ca 2 months ago
Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world 2 months ago
As someone who has changed a laptop keyboard before.
That picture says it all.
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
Picture’s worth a thousand expletives.
Mexigore@lemmy.world 2 months ago
They even state it them selves in the article, so it is not like they are trying to hide this. Also they say that this is not the end all be all of reparability, which IMO should merit not then getting a 10/10 but idk what their metrics are.
ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml 2 months ago
This is true, but they’re also not wrong that fully-modular USB-C ports is an absolutely huge win. It’s one of the biggest things when it comes to laptops these days.
user224@lemmy.sdf.org 2 months ago
That was where I went “holy hell”. Wearing out ports is something I am constantly quite scared of when plugging things in. Especially things like cables when they want to twist vertically, but the port is horizontal, and, well, it’s a thick cable, so…
jjlinux@lemmy.zip 2 months ago
It’s unlikely that fact will change the repairability of the devices. They risk too much by posting biased and false information on that end.
BlameTheAntifa@lemmy.world 2 months ago
It seems to me that Lenovo’s repairably is more affected by that iFixit partnership than the opposite. I don’t see anything factually wrong or suspicious in the article.
Viceversa@lemmy.world 2 months ago
Nevertheless, a conflict of interests is possible.
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 2 months ago
I agree, but like others have said, it bodes well that they’re open about this in the article