theparadox comments on Lenovo’s New ThinkPads Score 10/10 for Repairability

[–] theparadox@lemmy.world 53 points 8 months ago (7 children)

Just in time for RAM, SSD, and HDD prices to skyrocket and make personal computers unaffordable.

I guess if you can afford one now, at least you'll be able to repair it.

[–] Corngood@lemmy.ml 31 points 8 months ago (1 child)

When buying a laptop in 2026, you really need to consider how easy it's going to be to keep it running with parts you've scavenged from other road-warriors.

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[–] avidamoeba@lemmy.ca 7 points 8 months ago

Old off-lease ThinkPads from corporate fleets as always.

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[–] davel@lemmy.ml 3 points 8 months ago (1 child)

You could buy an anemic one now, and then upgrade the RAM & storage once prices come down.

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[–] IndiBrony@lemmy.world 19 points 8 months ago

prices come down.

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[–] HugeNerd@lemmy.ca -2 points 8 months ago (1 child)

Oh stop it. Plenty of used computers are perfectly fine. There isn't a single thing you need done that can't be done with a 15 year old PC. You don't need "agentic AI" to generate horse slop in your home, you don't need terabytes of pirated content you can't watch anyway, you don't need video games.

We live in the golden era of thrifting PCs and disconnecting from the slop and nonsense of modern computing.

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[–] theparadox@lemmy.world 5 points 8 months ago

My apologies! I didn't realize you were the arbiter of what I do and don't need. I feel so relieved now that I can just ignore all of the demands on my life and just hand over such authority to some opinionated jackass I met on lemmy.