Welcome to the era of disposable and expensive

era of disposable

“A monstrosity full of glue.” This is how the guys from iFixit rated the Microsoft Surface Laptop, a laptop with a 0 out of 10 in its famous reparability index.

This equipment is the perfect example of that tendency of the manufacturers to put barriers to that we put hand in the products. Some are so difficult to repair that they are practically high-end disposable products : if the Surface Laptop breaks down, Microsoft will probably replace it with a working one and recycle what you can from the one you gave them defective.

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