Comment by stronglikedan
7 days ago
The reality is that no one wants to carry around a five pound laptop just for the sake of sturdiness or repairability.
7 days ago
The reality is that no one wants to carry around a five pound laptop just for the sake of sturdiness or repairability.
98% of laptops are portable desktops.
Only in very niche jobs you carry your laptop to/from office/home every day.
One thing does not prevent the other: that's what standards are for.
You will need to sacrifice something. If the regulations become more restrictive, one of the following needs to change:
- cost (laptops getting more expensive) - quality (laptops getting less powerful / smaller) - time (manufacturers have a long grace period before they need to implement the regulations, to allow technology to catch up)
The EU always implements this kind of legislation with grace periods - obviously, no step functions.