I have a FW13, 3 yrs old, battery was getting weak, i just ordered one from FW and popped out the old one and put in a new one. Same for SSD and memory. This alone makes me stay with FW.

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codethief 9 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Not trying to change your mind but at least when it comes to exchanging the SSD and battery, you can do the same thing with practically all Thinkpads and Dells?

Just did it with my old Dell a couple days ago – I was done in 5 minutes.

	▲	leptons 14 minutes ago \| parent [-]
		Not too long ago, in a galaxy pretty close to here, there were laptops with removable batteries, and switching them required no tools and took all of about 10 seconds.

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kopirgan 7 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Replacing battery, KB, RAM, SSd in most Elitebook, Latitudes used to be easy. Not anymore atleast with Dell. Most RAM soldered.

But if it lasts 3-4 years I guess many end up upgrading anyway. My Latitude 5330 has everything soldered even the disk but going strong for 3.5 years.

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heavyset_go 8 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

You can do this with EliteBooks, and HP replaced my battery for free.