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For those who thought Microsoft was an alternative to Apple with regards to right to repair: think again. The mid-range and high-end HP laptops (not Lenovo) are
by Fnoord 7y ago
For those who thought Microsoft was an alternative to Apple with regards to right to repair: think again. The mid-range and high-end HP laptops (not Lenovo) are the easiest serviceable these days.
- siphon22 7y agoI use a hp elitebook 8470p i got for 100 usd from some guys garage and it is simply amazing. No screws, not even one to get the bottom cover off! You just slide it off and bam, your cpu/heatsink, fan, ram, and hdd are accessible on pretty much the same layer.
- jammygit 7y agoMy wife had a hp once that had the thermal paste dry up. To fix it would have required taking apart everything from the keyboard to the monitor clips, top and bottom. We just bought a new laptop.
- Fnoord 7y agoThere are some sweet spots of old laptops which are serviceable. Some are even Macs. There's also some which have an Intel ME which can be disabled. Some are even x86-64. Its getting less common though.
- no_wizard 7y agoSo you mean HP isn't an alternative?
- Reelin 7y agoI was also quite impressed by the construction of Dell's 2-in-1 devices.
- _emacsomancer_ 7y agoLenovo ThinkPads at least up to the --30 generation are very repairable/user-serviceable, more so than HPs. And, unfortunately, at least for certain purposes, X230s/T430s are the most recent reasonable laptops anyway: after that it's currently impossible to replace any of the Intel/AMD firmware with something inspectable.