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by cjk2 3y ago
I think somewhere in the middle of the framework and Lenovo is appropriate. I don't mind spending some time replacing ports but I do mind spending money on buying pluggable ones I'm going to plug in once. Apple have the right appr
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by cjk2 3y ago
Yeah that's because it's not the Intel variant :) Incidentally I get about 13 hours on my MBP.
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by cjk2 3y ago
Agree on all points. However sometimes the OEM branded parts are bundled in packs with iFixit tools. Notably with the Pixel parts as an example. Honestly I'd rather go direct to vendor for parts or service and decent turnaround and the
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by cjk2 3y ago
I will because their own products aren’t particularly good and their assessment of repairability on some products, as evidenced here, is likely biased by business relations. I do a lot of repair work (ex EE / production engineer) and I
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by cjk2 3y ago
iFixit are a business. They are driven on attention and sales. Not facts. Although some of the time they overlap.
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by cjk2 3y ago
Yes very regularly. Also on Dell machines from experience. Yubikey wore out both USB-C ports on a dell 5550 in under a year.
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by cjk2 3y ago
I just replaced my daughter’s T14 gen 3 with a MacBook Air M2 because the thinkpad lasts 2 hours on battery and gets hotter than satan’s nuts. Terrible machine.
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by cjk2 3y ago
Do they solder the USB-C connectors on the motherboard still? Because that has been actually the only fatality in the T470/T495/T14 machines I have. There is no way of effectively repairing the connector other than throwing the mo
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by cjk2 3y ago
Signed up to complain about this one. Totally cursed. I had to dig out an ancient windows laptop because I can’t roll it back and I’m shafted.