Indolent_Bard

Indolent_Bard t1_jds8h9s wrote

The difference is you can completely disassemble this laptop with nothing but a single screwdriver, everything can be replaced from the screen to the CPU (unfortunately you have to replace the whole main board, you can't just buy a new CPU unfortunately, stupid Intel and AMD won't let them I guess) to the heatsink and fan. Busted hinge? You can replace it. Need to clean it? Disassemble it and dust it and then put it back together. Easiest laptop to repaste, never go to repair shop ever again. Keep one laptop for the rest of your life, and upgrade it when you need to.

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Indolent_Bard t1_jds517o wrote

On one hand I agree with you because you basically have only three ports left while plugged in, but the other hand you can actually replace the charging port. I can't think of a single laptop where you can do that. I don't know if they even have the legal rights to do a mag safe type charger, only Apple and Microsoft branded laptop seem to have that feature for some reason. But of course, the community has been trying to make one for a while.

The storage modules make sense because there's only one SSD port. Yeah, I wish that they had two as well. If nothing else, It makes a decent backup drive for all your files and stuff. I don't know how to do this on Windows, but on Linux it seems that by default USB drives aren't mounted until you try to actually use them, meaning that you don't have to worry about a ransomware attack locking you out of your backup files just because it's plugged in.

Now that the 16-in version exists and has six ports instead of four, as well as the option of sticking in a graphics card if you want it, I'm pretty happy with what they have now. A laptop that can be entirely disassembled with a single screwdriver that they package with it, where every component can be replaced from the charging port to the hinges to the heat sink and fan. You could keep this thing running for as long as you live, which in my opinion makes it the best laptop ever.

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Indolent_Bard t1_jds3m55 wrote

The draw has always been that if any component breaks, you can just replace it. Most laptops make you replace the whole screen assembly if the screen breaks. Here you can just buy the screen, or the fan and heatsink, or the hinge, or literally any component that breaks. And the whole thing can be disassembled by the screwdriver they package with it, no glued parts to pry apart. They aren't doing it to get rich, they're doing it to make a revolution. Oh yeah, and you can upgrade the CPU too.

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