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0 pointsdangus3y ago0 comments

Context is key with these repairability ratings. I always assumed that a score of 7 for a phone means something different than a score of 7 for a laptop or tablet.

It’s not reasonable to expect that a tablet would ever provide modular RAM. It just doesn’t make sense for that form factor.

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ksec3y ago· 2 in thread

Just from reading the thread I think a lot of people are mixing up Reparability and upgradeability.

Nullabillity3y ago

Two sides of the same coin. Hurting one hurts the other, both help improve device longevity, and both help encourage a more open and modular design.

dangusOP3y ago

I think they're still separate issues in specific cases.

For example, if you made a motherboard with user-removable capacitors, that would not enable any significant upgradability, only repairability.

Another situation: If you have a $100 device and it has a major component that takes up most of the overall device cost (let's say, $80), making that $80 component modular/removable/replaceable doesn't aid repairability all that much. If that component fails, my entire device is "totaled."

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