| ▲ | stronglikedan 8 months ago |
| The reality is that no one wants to carry around a five pound laptop just for the sake of sturdiness or repairability. |
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| ▲ | asdffdasy 8 months ago | parent | next [-] |
| 98% of laptops are portable desktops. Only in very niche jobs you carry your laptop to/from office/home every day. |
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| ▲ | DrNosferatu 8 months ago | parent | prev [-] |
| One thing does not prevent the other: that's what standards are for. |
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| ▲ | acrooks 8 months ago | parent [-] | | 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) | | |
| ▲ | DrNosferatu 8 months ago | parent [-] | | The EU always implements this kind of legislation with grace periods - obviously, no step functions. |
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