> It not always being easy to get parts even through it's a very wide spread laptop. For any framework part you can easily get the equivalent Lenovo part from

> It not always being easy to get parts even through it's a very wide spread laptop. For any framework part you can easily get the equivalent Lenovo part from ebay in much larger quantities. > Lenovo not providing schematics for repair shops. After warranty is up its likely not cost effective to repair at component level. Also full schematics are available on 3rd party sites such as alisaler.com. > Lenovo locking downs components with DRM. The radio card whitelist is for FCC compliance - the whitelisted cards wont let you run frequencies outside your home country. Agree they should just do like other manufacturers and not worry about it. - Lenovo acting against 3rd party manufacturers of components. Not sure what you are referring to here. - officially only very few parts are CRU But practically they are plentiful. - USB ports are soldered to the motherboard (a problem framework sidesteps with there interface modules as there is no physical stress in the inner ports they connect too) This also makes the laptop larger. > all the Lenovo it's repairable only really applies to their ThinkPad lineup, excluding variants like X or Yoga, but frameworks laptop is somewhat competing with exactly that X variants I think. So vote with your wallet and buy a thinkpad.