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> Build a good laptop, let me upgrade it, and support it. How do you define "upgrade it." Lenovo sells the Yoga ultrabook, it's thin, affordable $800-$1,000,
by maxsilver 13y ago
> Build a good laptop, let me upgrade it, and support it.
How do you define "upgrade it."
Lenovo sells the Yoga ultrabook, it's thin, affordable $800-$1,000, has a great (in my opinion) build quality using soft touch plastic, includes a Haswell processor, and you can manually upgrade the SSD and RAM. It has a cheap wifi chip (no 5ghz? really?), but otherwise fits the bill you described.
Is the storage and ram enough? Or do you want more than that. Because I imagine it gets really tricky to build a thin, light, sturdy and reliable laptop that still lets you upgrade every single part.
- ajross 13y agoHaving DRAM and flash that aren't soldered to the board is indeed an important aspect to "upgradable". I'd point out, though, that that "cheap wifi chip" would be less of a problem if it could be, y'know, replaced. There is even a connector standard (M.2, which is a combo mini-pcie and usb thing) for these things that doesn't suck. Except it never works because the vendors whitelist their components in the firmware.