alt Hacker NewsThe reason is simple: corporate control. It's not a good reason.
If only you could take a big old stick and beat the "control freak" tendencies out of all the major corporations out there.
The reason is simple: corporate control. It's not a good reason.
If only you could take a big old stick and beat the "control freak" tendencies out of all the major corporations out there.
Sorry I wasn't clear, my point is: that reason is completely separate from a laptop's form factor or method of construction.
You can have a somewhat repairable laptop even if it's slim and tightly integrated, and you can also have a completely unrepairable one even if all components are modular and accessible but then use strong cryptography to authenticate to each other.
Form factor is not the primary reason current tech is hard/impossible to repair, though the industry loves that people believe so, since it diverts attention from their intentional efforts to hinder repair.