Comment by tomjen3
4 years ago
RAM and storage is usually integrated on phones. The battery is usually not something you can pull out anymore because people like me prefer phones that I can use to find my way in the rain without risk damaging the phone, but even so they are pretty easy to replace, the same with the screen.
On laptops you have a choice: buy a Thinkpad that is not an ultrabook, but even then you see people prefer thinner and lighter models than ones that are servicable.
How do you use your phone in the rain? Whenever I try, I find it's pretty much impossible, because the screen gets all wet and slippery, I can hardly see anything on it because of distortion through individual drops of rain, and I get spurious clicks from raindrops falling onto it. So I have to shield it under an umbrella or something...
And if I have to do that anyway, the phone being less than 100% watertight because the battery is swappable won't be a problem in the first place.
I only use it in the rain to look up maps and see directions or to quickly see a message and you are right that the distortions from the rain can make it hard to see, though I haven't had the issue of a slippery phone.
Maybe I am just paranoid, but I would like to know my phone doesn't die on me when it is exposed to rain.