Comment by cryo32

20 hours ago

The recent thinkpads are shit. They market high tech materials in the T14s machines but the bottom for a huge amount of the line is aluminium with plastic mounts glued to it. Those are fragile and break off. So really the whole magnesium alloy thing is performative.

I preferred the older plastic coated Mg chassis ones. At least they were honest about the materials.

Personally I avoid laptops now since the T430 line. Desktops are faster, cheaper, more reliable, easier to repair and replace bits and most of the time I don't need to carry a computer around.

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chermi  20 hours ago

I thought the very recent ones were going toward repairability? Like this year

  • cryo32  20 hours ago

    It's a complete overstatement. The USB-C ports are still soldered onto the motherboard and their parts supply chain is shit.

    I don't trust iFixit's quite frank "press handjob" because they're giving higher repairability rankings for that junk compared to Apple who have replaceable ports and a good supply chain available to the end user. Also they were all over selling battery kits for Pixel phones which are a complete pain to replace the batteries in compared to an iPhone.

    Not that Apple are the bastion of repairability, just their claims are less insane than both Lenovo's and iFixit's.