Re:On Replacing My MacBook Air M1 with a ThinkPad T480
by wilg on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @02:50PM
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Theoretically, having to design the product to be modular means you'll have connectors, modules, and other parts that you have to ship on every product. At scale, you could imagine that adding 0.1 grams of weight and material to every unit nets out to be more wasteful than throwing away 1 in 100,000 entire units due to a fault.
Re:On Replacing My MacBook Air M1 with a ThinkPad T480
by yjftsjthsd-h on Tuesday February 21, 2023 @04:05PM
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Theoretically, maybe, but we'd need real numbers to even start to evaluate that.
I'm skeptical of those being connected; my 2008 thinkpads and 2011 desktop (that I'm writing this on) are extremely upgradable and still work fine (I mean, the thinkpads are slow by modern standards, but that's not a reliability issue). And non-upgradeability in this sense also means that it's not reparable either, so when it does have problems the whole thing is dead rather than, say, just swapping out a faulty RAM module or replacing the worn-out SSD or whatever - to say nothing of the battery degrading.