Today’s laptops are locked up tighter than Fort Knox, keeping out intrepid DIYers with their soldered CPUs, integrated batteries and threats of voided warranties. If you’re lucky, you can swap out the memory, storage and Wi-Fi modules, but that’s it. Considering today’s batteries can potentially only have a useable lifespan of two or three years if driven daily, this single failure point alone is enough to force an upgrade of the entire device. The result is a rapidly growing tech trash problem, not to mention many bruised bank accounts.
Sadly, manufacturers are now addicted to the profit-earning cycles of forced obsolescence. It’s not that they can’t build a laptop with a removable battery – they simply don’t want to, as it would see
