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Only if you buy bottom end crap and beat it around. Lenovo / Apple hinges are pretty good.

Foldable displays have several million times more parts being folded...



I just spent a pleasant hour fixing a friend's Lenovo hinge. Disassemble, cyanoacrylate adhesive, reduce hinge tension, wait/beer, reassemble.

Unimaginably poor design detail and QA on the tension setting. Many of this and other Yoga models junked on account of it. Easy enough repair though.


The Yogas are ass end landfill built to a price point. You get what you pay for.


I have a Lenovo x1c6 with one of the shittier fan design you can make and Lenovo support did shit. My next laptop will be an Apple one, no doubt.


Looked like it. PEM studs into plastic and an over-tensioned hinge. What did they think was going to happen? It sure was no X220.




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