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 1 day 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 1 day ago
Alwaysnownevernotme@lemmy.world 1 day ago
As someone who has changed a laptop keyboard before.
That picture says it all.
MajorasTerribleFate@lemmy.zip 1 day ago
Picture’s worth a thousand expletives.
Mexigore@lemmy.world 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day 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 1 day ago
Nevertheless, a conflict of interests is possible.
AnarchistArtificer@slrpnk.net 1 day ago
I agree, but like others have said, it bodes well that they’re open about this in the article