{"id":200088,"date":"2026-04-07T22:08:32","date_gmt":"2026-04-07T22:08:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/apple-and-lenovo-have-the-least-repairable-laptops-analysis-finds\/"},"modified":"2026-04-07T22:08:32","modified_gmt":"2026-04-07T22:08:32","slug":"apple-and-lenovo-have-the-least-repairable-laptops-analysis-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ushopwell.com\/ublog\/apple-and-lenovo-have-the-least-repairable-laptops-analysis-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Apple and Lenovo have the least repairable laptops, analysis finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p>Apple earned the lowest grades in a report on laptop and smartphone repairability released today by the consumer advocacy group Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) Education Fund. The report, which looks at how easy devices are to disassemble and how easy it is to find repairability information, gave Apple a C-minus\u00a0in laptop repairability and a D-minus in cell phone repairability.<\/p>\n<p>For its <a href=\"https:\/\/pirg.org\/edfund\/resources\/failing-the-fix-2026\/\">\u201cFailing the Fix (2026): Grading laptop and cell phone companies on the fixability of their products&#8221;<\/a> report, PIRG analyzed the 10 newest laptops and phones that were available via manufacturers\u2019 French website in January. PIRG uses devices available in France because much of its criteria stems from the French repairability index, a grading system for device repairability that must be displayed on products sold in France. The group, along with other right-to-repair advocates, believes vendors should apply the French requirements to devices sold in other geographies as well.<\/p>\n<p>To calculate laptop vendors&#8217; grades, PIRG used the French index but gave more \u201cweight to the physical ease of disassembling the product\u201d because it believes that \u201cis what consumers generally expect a \u2018repair score\u2019 to refer to.\u201d The other French repairability index categories are:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/04\/apple-has-the-lowest-grades-in-laptop-phone-repairability-analysis\/\">Read full article<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/arstechnica.com\/gadgets\/2026\/04\/apple-has-the-lowest-grades-in-laptop-phone-repairability-analysis\/#comments\">Comments<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"wpematico_credit\"><small>Powered by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wpematico.com\" target=\"_blank\">WPeMatico<\/a><\/small><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Apple earned the lowest grades in a report on laptop and smartphone repairability released today by the consumer advocacy group Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) Education Fund. 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