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Lenovo PC boss: 4 in 5 of our devices will be repairable by 2025

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Re: Lenovo PC boss: 4 in 5 of our devices will be repairable by 2025

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Post by ta1243 »

AraceliHarker wrote: post #3

"(Lenovo) said people buy new smartphones every other year but became accustomed used to buying new PCs every six or seven years. The industry needs to do better at motivating people to buy new devices" https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/05/microsofts-panos-panay-expla...

Seems to be plenty of decent second hand machines. I'm typing this on an ex-corporate T470 I got for £250. Spend another £120 replacing the battery and pushing upto 32G of ram

(I actually bought 3 of them, one for my son and one for my S.O. Those didn't need to last for hours at a time so they're on original battery+memory and work great)

I know it's in the industries interest to force E-Waste, but it's not in the public interest.

Re: Lenovo PC boss: 4 in 5 of our devices will be repairable by 2025

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Post by dmoy »

AraceliHarker wrote: post #3

"(Lenovo) said people buy new smartphones every other year but became accustomed used to buying new PCs every six or seven years. The industry needs to do better at motivating people to buy new devices" https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/05/microsofts-panos-panay-expla...

What I want is a frame.work equivalent repairable and parts-replaceable smartphone. I know it's not practical right now because the commodity and consumer-purchaseable parts that go into a framework laptop don't exist for a smartphone analog right now, and the phone would probably be unacceptably large for most people. But I'd buy it if I could just replace the flash myself every 3-5 years, battery every 2-3 years, etc, and have security updates.

Re: Lenovo PC boss: 4 in 5 of our devices will be repairable by 2025

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Post by bsmith »

dmoy wrote: post #14
AraceliHarker wrote: post #3

"(Lenovo) said people buy new smartphones every other year but became accustomed used to buying new PCs every six or seven years. The industry needs to do better at motivating people to buy new devices" https://www.cnbc.com/2021/10/05/microsofts-panos-panay-expla...

What I want is a frame.work equivalent repairable and parts-replaceable smartphone. I know it's not practical right now because the commodity and consumer-purchaseable parts that go into a framework laptop don't exist for a smartphone analog right now, and the phone would probably be unacceptably large for most people. But I'd buy it if I could just replace the flash myself every 3-5 years, battery every 2-3 years, e…

What's wrong with the Fairphone?

Re: Lenovo PC boss: 4 in 5 of our devices will be repairable by 2025

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Post by a3w »

fortran77 wrote: post #15

I was very impressed with my Thinkpad X13s. I was able to open it up, just screws, --no glue to soften with a heatgun, careful spudging, or suction devices to pull things apart--and replace the 512 GB M.2 card with a 1 TB one.

I tried to replace my wireless card in my T440s. For a decade, Lenovo mostly forbids these upgrade via whitelisting in Thinkpads. Hello, other vendors...

Re: Lenovo PC boss: 4 in 5 of our devices will be repairable by 2025

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Post by Uvix »

bsmith wrote: post #16
dmoy wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

What I want is a frame.work equivalent repairable and parts-replaceable smartphone. I know it's not practical right now because the commodity and consumer-purchaseable parts that go into a framework laptop don't exist for a smartphone analog right now, and the phone would probably be unacceptably large for most people. But I'd buy it if I could just replace the flash myself every 3-5 years, battery every 2-3 years, e…

What's wrong with the Fairphone?

Fairphone is repairable but not upgradable.
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