I think there is room in the market for repairable and non-repairable laptops, and if someone wants to sell a non-repairable one, I don’t see what the big deal

I think there is room in the market for repairable and non-repairable laptops, and if someone wants to sell a non-repairable one, I don’t see what the big deal is. It’s a trade off. I had an Apple MacBook Pro that lasted 7 years, and I have a Lenovo T400s from 2010 that is still chugging along. I never upgraded either of them. All of the extra size and weight to make them repairable was for nothing as far as my usage was concerned. And for non-tech consumers, the reaction to a 4 or 5 year old laptop breaking down isn’t necessarily going to be “let’s pay a technician $150/hr + parts to fix it,” it’s going to be “let’s buy a new one.” So while repairability is good, I don’t view it as essentially in every model of laptop.