Lenovo SVP: 80 % of manufacturer's devices repairable by 2025

[Redaktion]

Sustainability has been one of the mega-trends of the economy in the last few years. In tech, one way to achieve this goal is by making devices repairable. Lenovo, currently the biggest PC manufacturer, has now predicted that the vast majority of its devices will be repairable by 2025.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Lenovo-SVP-80-of-manufacturer-s-devices-repairable-by-2025.757954.0.html

[NikoB]

Bees versus honey, Benjamin Herzig, do you believe? )))

[Bizarro_NikoB]

So I guess what Lenovo is saying is they're going to buy Framework by 2025 and then wind down FW's operations in 2026 so the industry can get back to the business of making non-repairable laptops.  /s

[RobertJasiek]

Your sarcastic guess is actually quite realistic, given how Lenovo has bought up quite a few companies with mobile devices with low reflectance displays only to prevent them in the market.

[NikoB]

Your sarcastic guess is actually quite realistic, given how Lenovo has bought up quite a few companies with mobile devices with low reflectance displays only to prevent them in the market.

According to press information, LG more than 10 years ago bought a company that produces A-TW polarizers for IPS screens, which eliminate Glow backlight defects when viewed at an angle.

And LG shelved their developments for 10 years... And only recently, it suddenly released a pair of monitors in 2022 (for example - www.lg.com/us/monitors/lg-32gq850-b-gaming-monitor), and on an outdated IPS (1000:1), and not its vaunted Black IPS (actually 1800:1 according to reviews) version with A-TW polarizer. Which is also quite wild and strange...

But they could improve the development of A-TW polarizers and release panels for laptops with them. What made them stop producing them for so many years, and now suddenly "wake up" with a pair of monitors on an outdated version of IPS?

[Joe]

Checking on psref.lenovo.com, at the moment, the opposite seems to be true regarding laptops as most of them come with soldered RAM (Including many new ThinkPads)
I'd be excited to get a new Lenovo laptop if they follow up on that promise, but as it is now, I think the company is going downhill for the last 5-6 years.

[NikoB]

most of them come with soldered RAM

Soldered memory provides 2 advantages:
1. Higher frequencies
2. Greater reliability of the motherboard during shocks and increased vibrations.

There are also two main disadvantages:
1. It is impossible to increase memory if it is not soldered immediately to the address limit of the memory controller.
2. In the event of a failure of one chip, the entire laptop becomes inoperable without a  reboiling this chip or replacement of the entire motherboard (in modern coproeconomics, most likely only the second at your expense) - and then the processor and many other things are also soldered, which is many times higher increases the price of the entire motherboard, although you only need the motherboard and working memory.

The meaning of wiring from the perspective of positive aspects is adequate, provided that the manufacturer is not insanely greedy, like all the current ones with an installed volume.

Those. for 2022, the current volume is only from 32GB. For 2023, this is already closer to 64GB in the business segment.

I don't mind soldered memory when there is enough of it and the difference in price between a smaller volume and a larger one exactly corresponds to the retail prices of approximately the same memory with exactly the same guarantee + 10% on top "for the work" of installation, BUT no more.

In reality, they meanly and deliberately limit the life of the product so that it becomes obsolete as quickly as possible. And versions with a larger volume are deliberately sold with a markup not of 10%, but of 300-400%, relative to the additional price compared to retail prices of the same memory and volume, and always with a longer warranty than theirs (usually 5-10 years , instead of 1-3 years as part of laptops).