Lenovo Made the Charging Ports Replaceable on the ThinkPad T14 Gen 7
My sister Megan spent most of 2023 charging her laptop with a jar of peanut butter. The jar sat on her kitchen table, pressed against the USB-C cable at the one angle where the worn port still made contact :). Eventually the angle stopped working, and a repair shop quoted her a new motherboard for […]
How Long Do Laptops Last, and What Usually Fails First
In a spiral notebook next to my precision screwdriver kit, I keep a log of every laptop friends and relatives have handed me since high school. It has 64 entries, each with a model, a year and one short line about what went wrong. Read in order, the notebook tells a consistent story. Laptops rarely […]