A 10/10 repairability score doesn’t happen by accident. Lenovo’s newest ThinkPads prove that laptops can be powerful, durable, and actually repairable.

Swappable batteries, modular parts, and one of the easiest keyboard replacements we’ve seen. Learn more about what makes these laptops amazing, at the link below.

https://www.ifixit.com/News/115827/new-thinkpads-score-perfect-10-repairability

@iFixit yes but

@iFixit Do you see any improvements on the keycap front? My perfectly good ThinkPads become unsuable because keycaps break all the time and I can only order full keyboards (*if* I can find any!).

@iFixit What is awesome about Lenovo Thinkpads is that good repairability is nothing new. They have ambition for doing things right, inherited from IBM, while others spend time shaving dimes off of the dollar - creating a microscopic blimp in the profit in favor of unrepairable trash for the customers. (Toshiba, Acer, I'm looking at you!)

@thor

Lenovo certainly has been one of the better ones for many years. But they have had models, including in the T series, where you basically had to replace a huge part of the laptop for a minor thing.

My X1C Gen 8 got a new motherboard because of a broken USB-C port. A T14 Gen 1 had to replace the complete top-part of the frame as the keyboard was glued to it - and to replace it, you had to unscrew basically every single component inside the laptop; everything was attached to this frame.

Also, the overall quality seems to have dropped after the T460 models. I've had one service on a T450 and a T460. But had 3 services on the X1C Gen8 and 2 services on the T14 Gen 1. Currently, a X11C Gen8 has behaved nicely and properly, but that's also the newest one. Issues typically occurs after 2-3 years of use.

That said, the T14 Gen7 and T16 Gen 5 improvements begins to look more like the good old T4xx series again, in regards to repairability. That's definitely a good step in the right direction. Now that just need to happen with the X and X1 series too.

@iFixit

@iFixit Did someone steal the trackpoint cap or what's going on in that picture?

@iFixit Your 'out of 10' scale needs recalibrating because there's plenty that's not fixable in this 10 scored unit. Then there's the Lenovo crapware which counts them out completely.

@iFixit Shrug https://frame.work Got There First. And you can buy them without paying the Microsoft Tax.

@iFixit Buy this instead of the MacBook Neo. K thx.

@iFixit along with the option to buy new with Linux... Lenovo is killing it!

@iFixit But does it run Linux without jumping through HP-style hoops?