From my experience they have been getting less repairable. Look at recent thinkpads.

My headcannon is that the only reason the T14G7 is as repairable as it is, is due to the whole right to repair movement, including framework.

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cryo32 4 hours ago | parent | next [-]

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 4 hours ago | parent [-]

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

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cryo32 4 hours ago | parent [-]

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.

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scrlk 3 hours ago | parent [-]

The 2026 ThinkPads have their USB-C ports on a separate modules: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dD_pz2t1FXA

	▲	cryo32 3 hours ago \| parent [-]
		That's a very recent change then. But only 3 in stock and 3x the price of the Apple ones. Good luck!

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starkparker 3 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

My last two ThinkPads (a P40 Yoga and a T14 Gen 2) were absolute shit.

The P40 spent more time in the repair depot than in use before I replaced it with something that didn't ship with a fucked M.2 slot, a touchscreen that failed out of the box and then a month after replacement, and a battery that pillowed within a month after that.

The T14 Gen 2 bricked on a BIOS update. The pinhole reset didn't work, so it went to the repair depot, came back two weeks later with the BIOS updated. Next BIOS update bricked it again.