A 10/10 repairability score doesn’t happen by accident.

[thor@mast.ttk.is]

@dazo @iFixit in contrast, my Toshiba laptops have been atrocious - especially the high-end one (a laptop that cost me $3k, had 4K display with touch, big HDD, dedicated ATI graphics etc) - insides look like someone randomly picked parts from AliExpress and hotglued them together. Quality is on par with the cheapest you can find in Temu.

Even Apple does not come remotely close to the servicability of Thinkpads. (I was Apple tech from 2007-08, can attest for lack of quality and servicability!)

[lemgandi@mastodon.social]

@iFixit Shrug https://frame.work Got There First. And you can buy them without paying the Microsoft Tax.

[jcarax@mastodon.social]

@vp9kf @iFixit That's the problem with these scales, eventually they get maxed out. I do hope iFixit addresses that, and not by recalibrating an out of 10 scale. That throws everything going forward out of whack with past results. Better to make it out of 15, and start working up towards that.

[avrona@masto.bike]

@OldWoofian @iFixit All because you don't have a scalpel, a guitar pick, a heat gun and professional lock picking skills (or heart surgeon precision skills) laying around ?

[javensbukan@mstdn.ca]

@iFixit Buy this instead of a MacBook. K thx.

[jcarax@mastodon.social]

@badrihippo Yeah, I've been a Thinkpad going back to the last few generations of IBM. They've gone down hill over the years, but I still prefer them to HP and Dell for more minor reasons than the past. I'd decided to go Framework next time around, but this is tempting me.

[jcarax@mastodon.social]

@ljrk FWIW, Linux runs much better on my P14s than my MBA 😁

[oldwoofian@beige.party]

@avrona @iFixit precisely!

[jtskywalker@mastodon.social]

@iFixit along with the option to buy new with Linux... Lenovo is killing it!

[ljrk@todon.eu]

@jcarax I had no issues with Asahi and soon-ish there'll be even USB-C DP mode and then I'm honestly fully satisfied ^^'

But it's mostly the hardware of the MBAs that's just crazy good

[tsyum@thepit.social]

@iFixit fwiw I’ve had a bad experience with Lenovo. My ($1300) pc will freeze unexpectedly, randomly. And especially if the logi receiver is unplugged. No answer from the company as to how that gets fixed. And Linux can’t be installed on this model

[jcarax@mastodon.social]

@ljrk It's better than a lot of laptops 15-20 years ago, in the dark days of compatibility. But DP alt and video decoding are pretty big shortcomings still. I do like it as a highly portable, passively cooled machine, but we'll hopefully see Snapdragon Elite support mature, and passive machines offered with that. The waiting game for new Macbooks to get hacked together support isn't great.

[ljrk@todon.eu]

@jcarax Oh totally, but QCom is also not really known for keeping up their promises and r/n every laptop of theirs was something of a letdown. The MBA is there already so I'm not in the market of buying new anyway.

[garyseven@mastodon.social]

@iFixit But does it run Linux without jumping through HP-style hoops?