Between this and GrapheneOS+Motorola thing, is Lenovo becoming less shit again? Awesome!
this post was submitted on 13 Mar 2026
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Looking forward to buying one in 3 years or so when corporations start rotating them out.
10/10 should be reserved for laptops where all parts are replaceable. including CPUs.
Even Framework requires a whole new mainboard to replace the CPU.
I agree. So a laptop these days should never hit 10, not even the framework laptops. Seeing the guides i'd give this an 8.5 at the highest. Its very repairable, looks very good, but the screen assembly is missing? I need to find an actual review of it from ifixit
It would be impossible to get that score because no processor manufacture makes them.
Then so be it. Let 9/10 be the highest possible score until some processor manufacturer gets their shit together.
they used to, though. having a slim laptop is good, but having a repairable and upgradeable laptop is better, they should at least give the consumers the choice.
They don’t do it just for slimness. They do it for signal integrity too. It’s the same reason you can’t get the much faster and lower power LPDDR ram in sodimms. Desktops don’t care about low power so they can blast the voltage. But laptops do, especially at idle.
Would you take a CPU that’s say 25% slower and uses 25% more power just to have it be socketed?
A socketed CPU would not realistically be 25% slower or 25% less efficient. your numbers are overly exaggerated. but to answer your question, I would sacrifice a little bit of performance and power efficiency for upgradeability and repairability.
I wish they brought something like the LPCAMM connector to CPUs. Money aside, I don't see why it wouldn't work.
It seems not to be available yet https://www.lenovo.com/ca/en/p/coming-soon/lenovo-thinkpad-t14-gen-7-14-inch-intel-laptop/len101t0154
Apparently the most recent Mac also has good or at least improved repairability marks. What's behind this? I wasn't under the impression Framework was doing the kind of numbers that would have the big players concerned.
I wasn’t under the impression Framework was doing the kind of numbers that would have the big players concerned.
They aren't. I think it's largely the EU's repairability mandates. That or general consumer pressure.
Yep. It's the EU starting to mandate some basics. What Lenovo have done in the T14 goes way beyond those though
the EU's repairability mandates
Didn't know about that. EU consumer tech policy developments can give me such whiplash sometimes.
Personally I will never buy anything made by Lenovo in my life after an ex-girlfriend bought a flex laptop and I had to spend 2-3 hours taking preloaded bloatware bullshit off of it just to get it to be marginally functional
The best service for repairs I ever received was for a Thinkpad. And the devices I most easily for working again myself are alsow ThinkPads
2-3 hours
Really? Why didn't you just reinstall the OS?
they tend to make both shitty and awesome products due to their wide price range, so yeah..