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replacing the thinkpad (thelemmy.club)
submitted 3 months ago by Vuraniute@thelemmy.club to c/memes@lemmy.ml
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for anyone who wants to offer actual advice: its a lenovo thinkpad t450 with a soldered i5-5300U that hits over 90C when running cargo compiles. I have changed the thermal paste and it didn't do much.

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[–] Mazesecle@lemm.ee 41 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Just leaving this here in case you don't know: there are also the Framework laptops, which are designed to be modular, upgradable, and have easy to buy replacement parts.

They even sell motherboards, so you can now get a e.g. Intel Core Ultra motherboard for your 3-4 year old laptop.

Of course It's a bit more expensive than a used 10 year old Thinkpad, but it kind of competes with other high end laptops, and it is cheaper especially when you consider it's designed to last more

(Not a sponsored post, just glad there is a company that makes such products, and that when I broke a part I could just go to their store and order a replacement instead of searching for serial numbers on random online stores etc like I've done before)

[–] Vuraniute@thelemmy.club 9 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They don't ship to where I live ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[–] psud@aussie.zone 5 points 3 months ago (2 children)

So use a shipping forwarder

[–] papertowels@lemmy.one 11 points 3 months ago

As someone who desperately wants a fair phone but it doesn't ship here, consider what it means to buy a repairable device when replacement parts are not easily obtained.

[–] Vuraniute@thelemmy.club 2 points 3 months ago (2 children)

any in greece?

[–] psud@aussie.zone 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

No idea. Shipito.com is what I used

[–] Mazesecle@lemm.ee 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago)

I used Aramex's shop&ship (both times), I found them from Courier Center's website.

The cost was a bit much, but nothing compared to the laptop itself (and also I really didn't want to buy yet another laptop that in a few years would be obsolete and unrepairable).

The laptop's order shipping was €70 and it took ~10 days after it arrived at their location. You can compare the shipping cost to/from various countries, my DIY package was 4.5kg

Edit: just a few days after making this comment, I received an email from Framework that they started shipping to Greece, among other countries!