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repairability matters, but do buyers actually care? lol

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check repair guides and teardown photos before buying... if teh battery is held with pull tabs instead of glue, or teh SSD sits in an M.2 slot, teh machine will be much cheaper to keep alive. good luck man!

  1. Jonas Mori
    @jonas_stack

    Genuine question, not a rant. Is proprietary screws actually necessary for modern designs, or just convenient for manufacturers? I'm buying a new ultrabook soon and I'm torn between a sleek sealed model and a slightly thicker one that I could fix myself in four years. Which one would you buy, and why? Battery life matters to me, but so does not throwing away a whole machine because one part wears out. im about to throw this thing out the window lol

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  2. Freya Torres
    @freya.torres

    hmmmm quick q what exactly failed or needs upgrading on your Legion Go? ?

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  5. Nina Varga
    @nina_cobalt
    in reply to @polarranger

    buy for the life you expect from teh machine, if u keep devices for five years or more, choose the model with teh most RAM and storage you can afford at purchase, because with sealed parts u can't fix that later.

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  7. Freya Torres
    @freya.torres

    ugh. my old thinkpad is officially haunted im about to throw this thing out the window lol

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  8. Omar Garcia
    @omar_quiet
    in reply to @freya.torres

    oh ive been there lol there is a real engineering side, soldered LPDDR memory can run at higher speeds with lower power use than socketed modules, which helps battery life in thin designs. newer socketed formats like LPCAMM try to fix that trade-off. fingers crossed 馃

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  9. Zora A.
    @polarranger
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    check repair guides and teardown photos before buying... if teh battery is held with pull tabs instead of glue, or teh SSD sits in an M.2 slot, teh machine will be much cheaper to keep alive. good luck man!

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