You're lucky, parts for Lenovo's are easy to source.
Last year I replaced a secondary fan in a 2010 Lenovo X series laptop - cost like ten bucks.
Go get the manual from Lenovo, they're shockingly easy to disassemble. The manual will show the exact sequence/screws and will list the part number.
Then search for that part number on ebay or Amazon/wherever.
The CPUs rarely need replacing in a laptop.
A socketed design uses more materials to make vs a soldiered one.
If you make 10,000 laptops and spend the extra material on a socketed CPU that maybe 2 would make use of, you have wasted material.
Dramatic punctuation?!?;/ββ
How would just swapping out the CPU vs dumping the whole unit not reduce ewaste?!
Are you passive aggressively gatekeeping fucking lemmy? That wouldnβt reduce ewaste. It would take more materials to make each unit too.
Is this an answer to what Framework is doing?
CPU failure is rare.
It is. How do i upgrade the CPU on a laptop again?
CPU failure is rare. Screen, keyboard, storage media failure much more likely.
Well, now I know what to look for in a few years. I mean, it was probably going to be a used Thinkpad, but now it certainly will.
Sweet! I had juuust ordered an X13, but I just canceled it!
Looks like the T14 Gen 7 won't be available until April 2026 though. Almost! Gonna wait for that instead!
I'm replacing my Dell Pro 13. I hate the keyboard on this thing, the Ultra 5 236V CPU and camera on the Dell Pro 13 aren't fully compatible with Linux, and I want to distance myself from US tech.
I recently got my parents an X13 with a slightly older CPU and everything 100% works in Linux, camera, bluetooth, everything. (Yes, I have my parents running Linux.)
Are you in the right community?
Reducing ewaste for starters, ensuring i can keep making the most out of the hardware.
Repairability?
But why would you is my point? On a desktop you can upgrade. But on a laptop, by the time it would need a CPU upgrade, thereβs enough other shit wrong that it doesnβt make sense financially.
Can't since they're no longer socketed.
I've had two Lenovo laptops, and both were/are NIGHTMARES for repairability! BOTH require disassembling the whole machine to replace the damn keyboard, and played coy games with their warranty support! NOW they decide to make their computers repairable. I'm fed up with them!
How often are you replacing laptop CPUs again?
No, parts are a complementary business (bcs of how the business/market is set up, life cycle of the laptops, the price of the parts is arbitrary, not marketed, etc - it doesn't exists without the core business).
What makes financial sense doesn't really have to make any economical sense unfortunately.
But I would want to live in such a place where it would.
Having said that, Lenovo sure seems to be making some sensible headlines recently.
Yes, this, it's all good that megacorps "embraceβ’" reparability (laws?), but the financial aspect is a key aspect of reparability.
If parts aren't cheap the theoretical ease of reparability is almost irrelevant (apart from the parts so standardised & open that multiple manufacturers offer their parts).
And it can change with time depending on the company - if a manufacturer wants more profit or new units sold, it can just make the parts more expensive. So the actual reparability score can change daily & depending on region.
We need reparability laws that also cover overall cost regulation (including eg software locks of fees).
If so, then the sum of the parts is truly greater than the whole - explaining why Lenovo would want to get into the parts business badly enough to do this. I imagine they'll reduce the cost noticeably to encourage adaption, then jack it back up once they feel they're firmly entrenched enough.
I wonder what the parts pricing would be like. A genuine lenovo screen replacement is usually about 80% of the ticket price of the laptop.
Which means several years since these are so repairable. I was also talking about the Moto phones, however - those may be available used sooner.
The Ts have always been, it's why you buy'em used.
If the CPU isn't socketed it ain't a 10/10.
Keep in mind these are all business oriented devices, so expect them to cost accordingly. Still a timely & smart move by Lenovo, tho.
Ok so Lenovo is essentially bringing graphene to Motorola phones, and just flew past damn near every other laptop in repairability.
If this is a sign of things to come, I'm going to have trouble not getting hyped. I'm already at half chub for whatever phone happens, and now this t series news comes along. I'm going to jizz my pants soon
How can one tell? Just put in 32 gigs and see if it would work? Seems a bit expensive as I don't have that kinda Ram laying around...
If you're comfortable doing all that stuff, just open the panels up and see what's listed on the motherboard.
Like, whatever socket it has, you can put the best chip from that socket type on that.
Where you plub memory in, should tell you what it'll handle.
If you're selling it, leave it at that, don't try to overclock for minor gains if the end user doesn't know how it works.