I suspect Lenovo is being motivated by rumblings from the EU.
https://www.consilium.europa.eu/en/press/press-releases/2023...
Lenovo PC boss: 4 in 5 of our devices will be repairable by 2025
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#22Back to the early 2000s ... it is amazing development, but why and how it was allowed to come to the current situation must be discussed and prevented from repeating.
PC was the exception during the 16bit days, and it was due to IBM failing to prevent clones that it happened in first place.
Most non technical users see their computers the same way as a DVD player.
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#23This is great, but I can't trust a Lenovo device and I'm always a bit shocked when I see developers buying ThinkPads from a company that's demonstrated it can't be trusted to give you a secure device.
I’m out of the loop. Is this sentiment due to Chinese ownership or previous mishaps? Both?
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#24This is great, but I can't trust a Lenovo device and I'm always a bit shocked when I see developers buying ThinkPads from a company that's demonstrated it can't be trusted to give you a secure device.
I’m out of the loop. Is this sentiment due to Chinese ownership or previous mishaps? Both?
I remember the superfish incident https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenovo#Superfish
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#25This is great, but I can't trust a Lenovo device and I'm always a bit shocked when I see developers buying ThinkPads from a company that's demonstrated it can't be trusted to give you a secure device.
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#26"(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…
Project Ara [0] was exactly that, but unfortunately Google shelved the project.
It would be really nice to have such a phone though!
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#27Step 1: stop soldering USB-C ports to the boards on your thinkpad line as they are NOT replaceable and will end the entire machine if damaged. That is the aforementioned T14 gen 3 in the article.
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#28This is great, but I can't trust a Lenovo device and I'm always a bit shocked when I see developers buying ThinkPads from a company that's demonstrated it can't be trusted to give you a secure device.
I’m out of the loop. Is this sentiment due to Chinese ownership or previous mishaps? Both?
Superfish is the big one.
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#29"(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…
I want a thick and strong chassis, the ability to pick which (camera) sensors are plugged in, standardized Single board computers, and add in batteries. Phones should be DIY projects with Cheap off the shelf components.
The PC equivalent.
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#30I'm guessing it was 5/5 as of 13 years ago.