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Norm Mikoto @mikoto@akko.wtf
3y
Yeah like as much as Apple Silicon Macs are nice and all, the utter lack of serviceability is what ultimately made me look elsewhere
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🎀 Tostilène 🐈 @tost@mk.toast.cafe
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@mikoto I have a frame.work and it's honestly less serviceable than lenovo garbage in practice
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Jeder neocat_floof_googly_woozy neocat_flag_agender @jeder@miau.jeder.pl
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@tost @mikoto gotta love techbro hype
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🎀 Tostilène 🐈 @tost@mk.toast.cafe
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@jeder @mikoto the issue is that by the nature of laptops, it's all going to be custom stuff
there is no standard "laptop" form factor, nor can there really be
so the most you can really do in practice is slottable ram, cpu, storage, wifi module

they expandable port stuff is a gimmick that's entirely irrelevant, you're just carrying around a bunch of single-slot dongles, essentially

the real question is, what happens when you need repairs in practice?
you can't just slot in new components because, erm, yeah, no standard
so you have to go to the manufacturer either way, no matter who made your laptop, unless it's a ram stick failure (rare and unlikely)
so it's about how the manufacturer treats this stuff

with lenovo, you send it in (even if you're wrong!) and at most you pay like $160 or something for the whole keyboard assembly, for example
with frame.work you have to fight with them for a month straight for them to even acknowledge that anything might be going on, and then they'll just tell you "buy a new one lmao"
just now a "new one" isn't a whole laptop, but just a new motherboard+cpu+etc combo

and lenovo is NOT good, to be very clear

so from my perspective, I'd rather just have a device that doesn't break to begin with
that has nothing TO break to begin with
you know, no moving parts
like the new arm mac airs :^)
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Jeder neocat_floof_googly_woozy neocat_flag_agender @jeder@miau.jeder.pl
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@tost @mikoto I'd love something that is powerful enough not to need active cooling, be reasonably cheap and like, you know, not be a fucking sbc
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