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by Run_DOS_Run 983 days ago
Lenovo's repairability of their products has unfortunately dropped a lot and I hope they take it seriously and get back to the quality they used to have. I own several ThinkPads from the last 10 years. The older models were all very easy to repair.

I definitely won't be buying the new models anymore. I can live with the fact that socketed CPUs have been replaced with soldered ones due to aesthetics (thinner laptops), but soldered RAM is where my pain threshold is reached.

I still believe that quality products must be repairable. I consider everything else to be cheap, throwaway products. No matter how much money "premium brands" charge for their junk with glued battery, glued SSD and fixed RAM in recycled aluminium packaging.