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

SnailMagnitude@mander.xyz ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

• Jolteon@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Hasn’t Apple been soldering everything to the motherboard for ages now?

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  • Sturgist@lemmy.ca ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Oh yeah…for well over a decade. If you’re REALLY lucky the proprietary form factor m.2 is user replaceable and not just sad bits soldered direct to the PCB.

    My wife has a 2017 MacBook Air, at some point in the last few years it stopped getting system and security updates. She didn’t notice until she got a pop-up from Chrome saying that her OS is no longer supported. Completely ignored it until around October last year when some websites stopped working and gave an error indicating out of date certificates.
    (There’s a lot in those last 3 sentences that is wildly troubling to me…)
    Took me from October until mid-January to convince her to TRY Linux. So I went to buy her a new m.2…and paid an extra £20 on top of standard because of the proprietary form factor. Luckily I bought before the major price hikes…got a 256gb m(ac).2 for ~£90. Would have just backed up her files and wiped the original drive but she wanted to be able to switch back to her exact installation if she didn’t like Linux…and the new drive is double the capacity 👍

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    • Draegur@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      Good grief what a stupid future we live in.

      And “sad bits” makes perfect sense.

      I’m glad i switched to mint on my laptop, I hope it only continues to improve. If only we could self-manufacture the hardware, too…

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      • Sturgist@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I mean…yeah…I guess I could live with homebrew tech on a scale of 64gb of ram being the size of a full fridge…but where the fuck do I put it?! Between the my wife and I there’s barely enough space for us and just our stuff in the house we own…😒🖕 Fucking Big Corpo Tech is in bed with Big Housing to conspire against the space required for Big HomebrewTech to be a contender…

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