Comment by quanticle

    While some companies, like Ricoh, DeWalt, Caterpillar and Lenovo have made 
    repair and remanufacturing a staple of their business model, 

This is why I continue to buy Lenovo, even though it can be argued that overall quality and durability of a Thinkpad isn't what it used to be when IBM still owned the brand. When I buy a Thinkpad (like the T440s I bought last year), I am reasonably assured that if something breaks, I can take it apart by myself and replace or repair the individual broken component, rather than having to throw out the whole laptop and buy a new one. Lenovo publishes the bill-of-materials for its laptops online, as well as the repair manual, which makes things a lot easier when trying to match parts. Just this weekend, I "repaired" my laptop's inability to receive 5Ghz wifi signals by replacing the stock 802.11 b/g/n wireless card with a 802.11 ac part. If this had been a Mac or an ultrabook, I would have just had to deal with the limitations of the hardware as it was.