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Fixing Your Laptop at Home Should Be Easy. Here’s Why It’s Not. (www.nytimes.com)
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[–] beardsley@midwest.social 4 points 1 year ago

100%. I own four thinkpads now. I have upgraded all of them with no issues whatsover. I crammed 16GB of ram and a SSD into my old X-230 and it outperforms my dad's brand new Dell. Although to be fair, I am using Manjaro and he is using Windows 10. I forgot how incredibly slow Windows can be.