• artyom@piefed.social
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    11 days ago

    iFixit is honestly terrible with these rankings. They seem to be based completely on how easy they are to take apart and reassemble, and nothing to do with availability or cost of components, or whether the components themselves are serialized.

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      11 days ago

      So, we primarily award points for replacement parts priced at 25% of MSRP or less (exclusive of tax and shipping, because those vary regionally).

      As a historical aside, although we’ve had our eye on this for a while, we only formally added replacement parts to the iFixit scorecard fairly recently—it’s factored in for many (but not all) of the devices we scored during the past year. We’re updating how repairability scores are displayed to help make that distinction clear.

      https://www.ifixit.com/News/75533/how-ifixit-scores-repairability

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        11 days ago

        Well it’s good to know that they added that. But don’t the OEMs decide what MSRP is?

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      11 days ago

      Their job is to sell tools to fix stuff, did you even read the ars article, it’s just clickbait. Lenovo failed because they didn’t provide repairability score for their laptop models. nothing to do with if it’s actual repairable or not.

      I’ve repaired Lenovo before, aftermarket items all available, change screens, keyboard, battery, simple stuff only though, no issues, everything is designed so it’s easy to change.

      I would not say the same about HP or DELL, shit enterprise laptops, and the consumer ones are worse.

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        11 days ago

        Their job is to sell tools to fix stuff

        And?

        did you even read the ars article

        The article was not relevant to my statement.

        I’ve repaired Lenovo before, aftermarket items all available

        I wasn’t talking about Lenovo.