<story><title>Microsoft Surface Laptop Teardown</title><url>https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Microsoft+Surface+Laptop+Teardown/92915</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sputknick</author><text>This sounds to me like a specific instance of the &amp;quot;most users don&amp;#x27;t want it, so we won&amp;#x27;t provide it&amp;quot; problem in computing. Similar to the lack of MacBook for power users. People who want to open their laptop are a tiny minority of users, and thus, not a population worth addressing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>unknown2374</author><text>That is very untrue. In most places in the world (and with most classes of people), the standard is to repair your laptop if it breaks, not buying a new one. Among certain people, and probably within the bias group you and I are coming from, the norm is to replace laptops every 3-4 years, but that is so not the case for a lot of the other groups of people and geography.</text></comment>
<story><title>Microsoft Surface Laptop Teardown</title><url>https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Microsoft+Surface+Laptop+Teardown/92915</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>sputknick</author><text>This sounds to me like a specific instance of the &amp;quot;most users don&amp;#x27;t want it, so we won&amp;#x27;t provide it&amp;quot; problem in computing. Similar to the lack of MacBook for power users. People who want to open their laptop are a tiny minority of users, and thus, not a population worth addressing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>chrisper</author><text>I am confident that most users would choose upgradability over Aesthetics if that means reducing e-waste, even if they won&amp;#x27;t use that feature.</text></comment>