{"id":380381,"date":"2026-04-07T23:26:08","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T23:26:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/380381\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T23:26:08","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T23:26:08","slug":"apple-and-lenovo-have-the-least-repairable-laptops-analysis-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/380381\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple and Lenovo have the least repairable laptops, analysis finds"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhile Lenovo has improved somewhat with their compliance with French consumer law by providing more repair score PDFs on their website, we urge the company to resolve this multi-year issue,\u201d this year\u2019s report says.<\/p>\n

PIRG\u2019s report concluded that \u201claptops are pretty stagnant in terms of repairability\u201d across many of the eight most popular laptop brands in the US.<\/p>\n

However, Proctor noted to Ars that consumers\u2019 access to parts, tools, and information that vendors have has improved, but improvements around ease of disassembly \u201ctake longer to realize.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also praised vendors\u2019 efforts to release more repairable designs, such as Apple\u2019s MacBook Neo<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Phone repairability scores<\/p>\n


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Lenovo\u2019s Motorola brand earned the best grade.<\/p>\n

Lenovo\u2019s Motorola brand earned the best grade.<\/p>\n

Credit:<\/p>\n

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US PIRG Education Fund<\/p>\n

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PIRG\u2019s scores for phone manufacturers this year are based on the European Product Registry for Energy Labelling (EPREL<\/a>), a scoring system that the European Commission created in June 2025 for scoring smartphone and tablet repairability. It\u2019s based on six factors:<\/p>\n

Disassembly depth
\nFasteners
\nTools
\nSpare part availability
\nSoftware updates
\nRepair information<\/p>\n


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US PIRG used different criteria for this year\u2019s report.<\/p>\n

US PIRG used different criteria for this year\u2019s report.<\/p>\n

Credit:<\/p>\n

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US PIRG Education Fund<\/p>\n

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PIRG\u2019s report said that Apple and Samsung scored so low under EPREL criteria partially because all of the phones scored are guaranteed to receive updates for five years and not longer.<\/p>\n

PIRG noted that Apple made progress in phone repairability by moving away from parts pairing, which is when companies require parts to be verified through encrypted software checks in order to function, and through the introduction of the Repair Assistant<\/a>. However, the report\u2019s author lamented that third-party Face ID replacements still don\u2019t work<\/a>. The report adds:<\/p>\n

Apple also extended its Activation Lock anti-theft feature to individual parts, which repair advocates warn will strand large numbers of perfectly functional components\u2014locking them out of the repair ecosystem entirely.<\/p>\n

Apple isn\u2019t alone: parts pairing and software restrictions remain an industry-wide problem that consumers and independent technicians continue to face across manufacturers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cWhile Lenovo has improved somewhat with their compliance with French consumer law by providing more repair score PDFs…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":380382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[85,46,125],"class_list":{"0":"post-380381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=380381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/380381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/380382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=380381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=380381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=380381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}