A new repairability report from the US PIRG Education Fund says Apple and Lenovo make the least repairable laptops among major brands in 2026. even though
First spotted by Ars Technica, the “Failing the Fix 2026” scorecard draws on the French repairability index for laptops and converts those numbers into letter grades for manufacturers. Apple ranks at the bottom with a C‑minus grade for its laptops, with PIRG citing difficult disassembly, soldered components, restrictions on independent repair, and more. That’s despite the MacBook Neo showing impressive repairability compared with other Apple laptops.
Lenovo sits just above Apple with a C grade. Though that’s an improvement over last year’s failing grade (stemming from its failure to publish the required documentation for many models in France), PIRG penalizes brands that support trade groups that lobby against right‑to‑repair laws, and this decision lowered every laptop brand’s score except Acer’s.
Looking at the top of the chart, Asus leads the laptop rankings with a B+, with Acer, Dell, and HP in the B range. PIRG says that some Lenovo ThinkPad models and repair‑centric brands like Framework have much higher model‑level repair scores, but Lenovo’s brand average is still behind its competitors’. This is mostly because many of its consumer laptops are more difficult to repair.
PIRG’s rating system is based on criteria like how easily a device can be opened, the availability and pricing of spare parts, access to repair manuals, and more. PIRG argues that low repairability grades for big brands mean higher costs for consumers and more e‑waste, as owners are likely to replace laptops rather than repair them.
