>I had this experience with my ASUS ROG recently (sidenote: who makes a
>gaming laptop, even one a couple gen old, with only 8 GB of RAM? I
>only use the thing for work these days and that still wasn't enough)
>and it made me very much miss the old Dell business laptops that made
>RAM and HD upgrades a breeze.

Hell, Lenovo themselves used to know how to do this. My trusty old ThinkPad W510, which I bought from the UMaine gear shop when I went back in 2010, has a little door on the bottom. Undo one screw, pop the door open, hey presto, there's the RAM. Replacing the keyboard was dead easy, too, because it was a modular part that came off from the top. By comparison, the Legion 5 doesn't even have a detachable battery.

I grant you that ThinkPad and Legion are separate product lines with different specializations these days (ThinkPads are for Business and Legions are for Gaming, apparently, because nobody ever does both things with one computer?), but even that distinction is a little weird, because who is stereotypically more likely to want to work on their own computers: business people or gamers? I'm thinking not business people.

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