iFixit Is Helping Make HP Laptops More Repairable

HP laptops are becoming much repairable and upgradable, acknowledgment to a concern with iFixit. The 2 companies are moving unneurotic to merchantability replacement parts, make repair guides, and different steps to marque HP laptops much sustainable and repair-friendly.

iFixit already provides repair parts, substance and video guides, repair tools, and different enactment for fixing everything from crippled consoles to iPhones. This new partnership chiefly covers immoderate of HP’s premium concern laptops, including the HP EliteBook 840 and 845 bid G7, G8, and G9, and the 840 Aero G8. There are besides guides and parts for the existent HP 15 and 15s laptops, HP Pavillion x360 14 2-in-1 PC, and HP Pavillion 15.

HP makes a lot much computers than the concern presently covers, including each of HP’s desktop workstations, the Omen-brand gaming computers, and immoderate mid-range and low-end laptops. You’re besides inactive connected your ain for each of HP’s keyboards, printers, mice, webcams, and different hardware. Those repair guides and replacement parts are decidedly amended than nothing, but HP inactive has a agelong mode to go.

iFixit said successful a blog station today, “Ever since earning our first-ever 10/10 repairability people successful 2012 for the Z1 all-in-one workstation (complete with a repair diagram wrong the device), HP has impressed america with their committedness to designing repairable products. Even erstwhile we called HP retired for discontinuing the month-old TouchPad, we inactive had to springiness them recognition for repairable design. […] We’re adjacent much excited to grow our concern today. As a subtle but dependable champion for repairable hardware, this enlargement is simply a earthy adjacent measurement for HP.”

iFixit has partnered with respective different large tech companies to make repair kits and guides for their products, including Microsoft, Google, and Valve. Not everyone needs iFixit’s help, though—it has praised Framework and different companies for creating their ain repair documentation and retail channels for replacement parts. iFixit and Samsung besides had a concern for a fewer years until mid-2024, allegedly owed to “obstacles that made america uncertainty Samsung’s committedness to making repair much accessible.”

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The blog psot besides said, “One absorbing diagnostic to cheque retired is the caller artillery replacement instrumentality [HP is] calling the Revivekit. Inside the box, you’ll find 2 much boxes—one containing a caller battery, and 1 designed to safely clasp your aged artillery aft replacement. The cardboard is contoured truthful it fits implicit the aged artillery portion you’re extracting it, protecting it from wayward screwdriver pokes during your repair. It’s besides got a mates strategically-placed adhesive pads to assistance unafraid it to the artillery portion you work—and it’s designed to enactment stuck to the artillery arsenic it lifts out, whereupon you tin fold it up for safekeeping and liable disposal.”

Even though the products with repair guides and replacement parts are inactive limited, immoderate question towards much sustainable hardware is great. Hopefully, the concern extends to much of HP’s devices successful the months and years ahead, particularly with the ongoing commercialized warfare making caller hardware purchases much difficult.

Source: iFixit