[cangeroo]

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.

[TiredOfLife]

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

[Moldoteck]

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

[Derbasti]

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

[mavhc]

Mostly I replace batteries, screens and keyboards. Sometimes the power input or ssd.

How much does a new keyboard cost?

[StrLght]

> 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]

Do modern laptop CPUs even have specified sockets anymore?

[StrLght]

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.

[kats]

> Soldered CPU

What altenative would you like to see?

[cjk2]

iFixit only dislike Apple.

[jkaplowitz]

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-co...

[alt227]

Maybe thats because Apples devices are terrible to repair?

[LorenDB]

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]

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