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Lenovo PC boss: 4 in 5 of our devices will be repairable by 2025
Submitted 11 months ago by boem@lemmy.world to technology@lemmy.world
https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/05/lenovo_pc_boss_4_in/
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MinusPi@yiffit.net 11 months ago
HidingCat@kbin.social 11 months ago
I mean, given they sell Thinkpads, the bar is likely to be easier to reach for them. I do wonder by what metric of "repairable" they mean. The quote has him saying batteries and SSDs, but those are already fixable in most of their existing line up. It's the RAM (so many are soldered, even in the Thinkpad line) I'm mostly thinking about, and there's also the screen and keyboard, two other common failure points.
roguetrick@kbin.social 11 months ago
I honestly would prefer soldered RAM in a laptop designed to bounce around a lot.
HidingCat@kbin.social 11 months ago
What? That is one of the crazier takes I've seen. RAM upgradibility is so much better, never heard of RAM disconnecting.
Aeonx21@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I’m only here to say, why the fuck would you put wrenches in this pic? Imo Should be screw drivers
ShaggySnacks@lemmy.myserv.one 11 months ago
“By repairable we mean that you have to us a monthly subscription to get access to the tools needed or you can take it one of your very expensive authorized repair centers. We can’t lose money because you decided to repair our products.”
rambaroo@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Idk, Lenovo’s laptops have always been fairly easy to work on. The back panel on my legion is a little tough to get off but everything is easily accessible once it’s removed. There was even an extra slot for an nvme drive so I have two hard drives now.
MonkderZweite@feddit.ch 11 months ago
“Company follows law.”
themurphy@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Well, yeah. They kinda have to by EU law in the future. But good to see they start the change now.
somenonewho@feddit.de 11 months ago
I love ThinkPads especially the “good old” ones. Especially for their accessibility of parts and easy repair/upgradability.
My personal laptop has been a Thinkpad since 2013 (Thinkpad Edge E135 > Thinkpad X220 > Thinkpad x260) and at work we are also given ThinkPads (currently running a T14 gen 3).
Most ThinkPads I encountered are also sturdy built and not Gleis together or some crap like that. However I recently had an issue with my x260’s power button no longer working and to get it to work I had to replace the top bezels. Well maybe to put it more bluntly I had to get a replacemt bezel and put my Thinkpad into it since to replace the bezel I had to take out almost everything and then put it back in the reverse order. The mere fact that I managed to do it and there are officiall step by step instructions on how to (hmm) are a big upside of ThinkPads. But like others have said it used to be even better.
Well long story short: I’ve recently preordered a framework 13 amd while I honestly would have preferred a “Thinkpad black” Chassis framework just seems to have the right idea to me.
dannym@lemmy.escapebigtech.info 11 months ago
Framework is doing amazing work. Sure, their stuff isn’t cheap, but you’re basically voting with your wallet against the throwaway tech culture. It’s like saying, “Hey, we’d rather pay a bit more for gear that’s actually built to last, than for some flimsy junk that falls apart and costs a fortune to fix.”
olicvb@lemmy.ca 11 months ago
They better be repairable, 2-3 in 10 of them will need it out of the box. smh Lenovo i used to have better expectations of you.
For the curious: My work has us get batches of them, some have camera issues, others simply don’t turn on.
FireWire400@lemmy.world 11 months ago
ThinkPads once were pretty easy to work on and repair, but then the whole soldering stuff to the system board and removing power bridge batteries happened.
Brunbrun6766@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Don’t buy Lenovo, unless you like your Chinese spy machines
3laws@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Just uninstall Windows.
sorrybookbroke@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
Can you give me some of the articles, studies, etc. which have convinced you of these laptops being spyware?
pimento64@sopuli.xyz 11 months ago
I take it you don’t remember the SuperFish scandal? Lenovo just settled the class action lawsuits not too long ago. I don’t blame anyone for not trusting Lenovo after they sold PCs with built-in spyware that ran MITM attacks using self-signed certificates and hijacked their SSL/TLS connections. You really don’t need a study for something that Lenovo admitting to doing.
queue@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Yeah, use HP and Dell for American spying machines running Windows and Intel Management Engine!
pastermil@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I took apart a Thinkpad *20 series laptop including the main board and put it back together with not a single issue. I heard thingd went downhill from the *40 series onward and became unbearable for the Thinkpad enthusiasts since the *90 series.
Now they’re saying this like they haven’t fucked it up in the first place. What a joke.
Aurenkin@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
I like to think that this means you take your device to a repair centre and they have you spin a big wheel to see if you get to have your device repaired.
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 11 months ago
A new model with a deep travel keyboard, please, Lenovo. Don’t bother me until it’s done.
tony@lemmy.hoyle.me.uk 11 months ago
4 repairable, one broken, 2 milion glued shut.
Gino_Pilotino667@lemmy.world 11 months ago
What a crazy carousel. I still use the t430, which I would call repairable - I just hope that there will be a current motherboard with appropriate CPU For it
float@feddit.de 11 months ago
T480s user here. It’s perfectly fine, too. I think it went downhill from the 90-series onwards.
WuTang@lemmy.ninja 11 months ago
I agree. it has the right balance and you still have a full RJ45 slot :) My only issue with is the loose USB-C ports, it’s not firm like the Macbook or even Elitebook.
Primarily0617@kbin.social 11 months ago
4/5 products will be repairable
the fifth would've been, had lenovo not filled it with a bunch of glue for a laugh
pastermil@sh.itjust.works 11 months ago
As if soldering RAM & SSD isn’t enough, the chasis would be solid epoxy and there’s no way you’re taking out the battery or the keyboard, let alone the mainboard.