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This is silly. Soldered CPU, RAM, SSD. Pretty much the only thing repairable is the battery. I'd argue that this was a cheap business decision to make. Keep th

This is silly. Soldered CPU, RAM, SSD. Pretty much the only thing repairable is the battery. I'd argue that this was a cheap business decision to make. Keep the price gouging on parts, while satisfying regulators on "right to repair", and even get some free marketing from iFixit. It only takes one part to break for you to have to buy an entire new device.

cjk2 2y ago
iFixit only dislike Apple.
- jkaplowitz 2y ago
  They gave Samsung some pretty harsh criticism recently when they ended a partnership with them: https://www.ifixit.com/News/96162/were-ending-our-samsung-collaboration https://www.ifixit.com/News/96162/were-ending-our-samsung-co...
- alt227 2y ago
  Maybe thats because Apples devices are terrible to repair?
Moldoteck 2y ago
U sure about ssd? I think Microsoft switched for several years to easily accessible screwed ssds that you can easily replace
- Derbasti 2y ago
  The SSD is user replaceable, and has been for the last two generations of surface tablets, IIRC.
TiredOfLife 2y ago
The tablet literally has a magnetic door to change the m2 ssd
mavhc 2y ago
Mostly I replace batteries, screens and keyboards. Sometimes the power input or ssd. How much does a new keyboard cost?
LorenDB 2y ago
I'm pretty sure that only Apple is desperate enough to solder storage. I've never heard of any other laptop or desktop with soldered storage (although please correct me if I'm wrong; I'd love to know what brands to avoid).
- vel0city 2y ago
  Lots of cheap laptops have eMMC storage that is soldered. Practically every big computer maker has shipped some laptop with this.
kats 2y ago
> Soldered CPU What altenative would you like to see?
StrLght 2y ago
> Soldered CPU Is there a single laptop on the market that's different in that sense? Even Framework only supports swapping entire mainboard. Even then -- we have yet to see for how long they'll be releasing updates for the current form factor.
- eikenberry 2y ago
  Do modern laptop CPUs even have specified sockets anymore?
  - StrLght 2y ago
    Not in the hot-swappable way but yeah, they kinda do: e.g. latest AMD CPUs use sockets called FP7 / FP7r2 / FP8. However, I don't think footprints of these sockets are public.

cjk2 2y ago

iFixit only dislike Apple.

jkaplowitz 2y ago
They gave Samsung some pretty harsh criticism recently when they ended a partnership with them: https://www.ifixit.com/News/96162/were-ending-our-samsung-collaboration https://www.ifixit.com/News/96162/were-ending-our-samsung-co...
alt227 2y ago
Maybe thats because Apples devices are terrible to repair?

Moldoteck 2y ago

U sure about ssd? I think Microsoft switched for several years to easily accessible screwed ssds that you can easily replace

Derbasti 2y ago
The SSD is user replaceable, and has been for the last two generations of surface tablets, IIRC.

TiredOfLife 2y ago

The tablet literally has a magnetic door to change the m2 ssd

mavhc 2y ago

Mostly I replace batteries, screens and keyboards. Sometimes the power input or ssd. How much does a new keyboard cost?

LorenDB 2y ago

I'm pretty sure that only Apple is desperate enough to solder storage. I've never heard of any other laptop or desktop with soldered storage (although please correct me if I'm wrong; I'd love to know what brands to avoid).

vel0city 2y ago
Lots of cheap laptops have eMMC storage that is soldered. Practically every big computer maker has shipped some laptop with this.

kats 2y ago

> Soldered CPU What altenative would you like to see?

StrLght 2y ago

> Soldered CPU Is there a single laptop on the market that's different in that sense? Even Framework only supports swapping entire mainboard. Even then -- we have yet to see for how long they'll be releasing updates for the current form factor.

eikenberry 2y ago
Do modern laptop CPUs even have specified sockets anymore?
- StrLght 2y ago
  Not in the hot-swappable way but yeah, they kinda do: e.g. latest AMD CPUs use sockets called FP7 / FP7r2 / FP8. However, I don't think footprints of these sockets are public.