80% Of Lenovo Devices Will Be User-Repairable By 2025, Says Exec
80% Of Lenovo Devices Will Be User-Repairable By 2025, Says Exec
Another win for repairability: Lenovo has promised its commitment to make devices user-repairable in “more than 80 percent” of its devices by 2025.
Lenovo executive Luca Rossi said in Canalys EMEA Forum 2023: “On repairability, we have a plan that by 2025 more than 80 percent of our devices will be able to be repaired at the customer, by the customer or by the channel and we are enabling this with a design for serviceability kind of approach.”
To add on to that: “batteries, SSD, many things, will not any longer be sealed into the product but will be available for the customer to be to repaired on site and then save a lot of waste.” Good news, then. Although, as The Register pointed out, this decision isn’t necessarily made out of company’s goodwill: the European Council (EC) last month has updated laws, making consumers better informed on a device’s lifespan and serviceability – set to finalize before June 2024.
When it comes to modular/repairable laptops, Framework is perhaps the most successful example in recent times. The brand offers high levels of modularity and serviceability that allows easy access to various parts of the laptop, including speakers, keyboard assembly, and even the motherboard.
Right-to-repair laws has also been making slow but steady progress in America, with some states – most prominently, California (home of many Big Tech companies) – passing laws to ensure spare parts availability up to 7 years of production. You also have EU to thank for iPhone’s transition to USB-C, and soon, the return of user-replaceable batteries in smartphones.
Pokdepinion: Isn’t right-to-repair great? It had to take so much efforts all over the world to finally pull this off.
