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Comment on Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability— Repair goes mega mainstream with the launch of Lenovo's new T-series laptops

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tempest@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

I would be curious to see how often people actually upgrade their frameworks.

I agree with their repair stance. It just feels like one of those things people will tell you they want and then never do.

Still maybe the explosion in memory prices will change the incentives and people will start holding things longer. It will be interesting to see.

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festus@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

I would be curious to see how often people actually upgrade their frameworks.

For me, I’ve upgraded my mainboard to a newer CPU generation for better integrated graphics (old one is in a case as a home server) and I upgraded to their matte screen when they released those.

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hereiamagain@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I got my framework about a year ago, before the tariffs got crazy, and well before ram got crazy (I put 96 gigs in it to play with AI workloads, and for the lulz).

My plan is to ride this thing until it starts showing its age. Which I imagine will be another 3 or 4 years? Only then can I comment on my actual desire and commitment to upgrading it.

Until then, I’m just banking on the fact that the company will a) live. And b) still have parts for my machine.

I do appreciate what they’re doing, and I like my machine now.

There are definitely people out there who upgrade super frequently, who knows, maybe I’ll be one of them in 1 or 2 years instead of 3 or 4. Hard to say what life will look like then, the way things go these days.

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UnderpantsWeevil@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
It is a bigger deal in business settings, where one laptop can see multiple hands and you’ve got a team dedicated to repair.

Not typically an issue for the individual user, but always an issue for a team of users.

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bilb@lemmy.ml ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I’ve upgraded my 13 with new mainboards twice. I’ve yet to upgrade my 16 because everything is too expensive now, and upgrading the GPU to the newer nVidia module would require replacing the screen too and fuuuuuck that.

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