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Lenovo also owns the Motorola phone brand, and they're going to adopt/allow GrapheneOS. I think they know how to grab customers right now, and I honestly like it.

Just a lil nitpick: article is by iFixit who is a Lenovo business partner. So perhaps less objective than one might hope.

There's a difference between 'repairable' and 'upgradable.' Most of the comments seem to conflate the two. Lenovo isn't doing a Framework.

It's a smart move. Differentiates them from other laptop-makers for corporate IT, who can do the parts swaps themselves. Also smart is associating the brand with iFixit and working to get a 10/10. That'll be what sets them apart from all the others, at least for the next year or two.

Ooh yes baby! As an early Framework adopter who's repaired it already a few times, including a solder job on the board, I am happy to see it. I am getting increasingly angsty about where Framework would go in the future as its VCs crank up the profit knob. Having the biggest real manufacturer in the world introduce an alternative is fantastic. With that said, it also depends on Lenovo actually making parts direct-for-purchase available at decent prices. Without that, repairability serves just as marketing wank.

E: Is that a magnesium body plate?

One thing to highlight: T-series Lenovo laptops are mainstream business products shipped at a huge scale.

This is not a small-scale experimental product for the tinkerers. This may define the biggest laptop segment if it works out well. It might be the first time in a while that something like this hits such a huge market.

They got scared by Framework sucess

That's nice you can replace the charging port without reflowing the motherboard now.

Nice to see this pop up as Apple announce their 5yr plan to flood the world's landfills & scrap yards with 8gb fused ram Neo's.

Yes, but if you are running Windows on them, do they still inject Chinese state-sponsored malware into Windows on every boot from UEFI/BIOS storage?

They were caught doing this on several occasions, to the point where Lenovo products are forbidden across significant swaths of the U.S. government and military.

Happy for them, I'm sure the 100 people that still can afford computers will appreciate it.

Lenovo not dropping the ball on their thinkpad reputation but improving it. Very impressive

Ripper job on Lenovo's part; I'd give them flack for using LPCAMM2 instead of SODIMM but honestly, it is ultimately the better choice for laptops and it's totally cool to see it instead of soldered RAM.

Ideally they'd bring back the old keyboard layout based on the T25, but that's more or less nitpicking at this point. The Powerbridge battery system would be cool to see make a comeback and a swappable WIFI module would be cool (they kinda brush is off in the article but I think replacing and upgrading the WIFI module would be a nice thing).

My personal problem are the speakers; although ever since getting my hands on an M1 Pro MacBook I'm kinda spoiled in that regard.

We’re so back

Could they please cooperate with Framework and create Universal Joints?

Now if I can buy it cheaper empty without microslop spyware installed on it, that would be great

I wonder if this will shut up the "they don't make them like they used to" crowd.

Edit: i knew that wouldn't be the case. It didn't need this thread as proof.

Does 10/10 mean it's got RAM and drives accessible without needing to disassemble the whole fucking thing?

Nice to see both aren't soldered onto the motherboard, but we've still gone backwards in the last 20 years.

Ok but how long is it going to be supported? If they abandon the idea its just a particularly expensive regular laptop, even if they keep supporting it you're locked into ThinkPads ecosystem. It's not truly repairable until its a standard that doesn't rely on the benevolence of a single company.

I've been a ThinkPad user for about 4 years now, got a second-hand T470s running Fedora. It's been an amazing experience! I'm not one for brand loyalty, but (so long as Lenovo doesn't fuck them up) ThinkPads will always be my first choice for a laptop.