This kind of repairability has been a general feature of "enterprise" friendly laptops like ThinkPads and Elitebooks for a while. I've had an Elitebook 840 for

This kind of repairability has been a general feature of "enterprise" friendly laptops like ThinkPads and Elitebooks for a while. I've had an Elitebook 840 for 4 years now, great laptop, very solid, still working well. The repairability is handy for me in two ways. 1) If I want to upgrade/replace the storage I can do that easily, so I was able to upgrade to a 512GB SSD without any problems. 2) As the laptop gets older and the battery inevitably starts to wear down, I can just buy a replacement battery. All this means a much longer lifespan for my laptop, which is good for me as I like it as an overall device.