| > For example, how do Lenovo, Samsung or Dell handle this stuff Here you go: https://www.ifixit.com/laptop-repairability?sort=score HP, Dell, LG, Acer and even Samsung manages to do a lot better. Lenovo is also very simple to at least change battery, ram and disk. I know this since I own one and have added memory and disk. On the Thinkpad versions the battery is located outside and can be switched without even having to open the machine at all. > can you explain why their approaches produce less waste? Yes, by letting me as a consumer change parts myself for the only cost of purchasing the actual part that needs changing or upgrading, the increase the service life of the machine I purchased. Also, by not participating in this anti-consumer behavior, I can take said machine into a third party service shop and get it repaired there. I don't have to wait weeks for the proper parts to arrive and so on and I can get it fixed the same day. I am not hating, I am stating a fact. By indirectly forcing people to buy new machines instead of repairing their old ones that often work perfectly well, except for maybe 1 thing that is broken or needs an update, they increase their environmental impact for no other reason than profit on their part. Apple can do better and Apple have done better in the past. |