Laptops
An exploratory set of questions about repairable machines, meaningful hardware testing, and what an Omarchy recommendation should require.
A recommendation should mean something.
Omarchy is exploring what it would take to stand behind a laptop recommendation. A logo on a lid would be cheap. A useful standard would have to describe the experience of living with a machine: opening it, fixing it, and using the parts that make a computer feel like a computer.
That work begins with questions, not a list of machines.
What evidence should earn the name?
- What does repairability look like when a person needs to understand and service their own machine?
- Which parts of the hardware experience need direct, repeatable testing before anyone can make a useful recommendation?
- What should an honest recommendation say when it cannot assume every reader can get the same machine?
The standard matters more than the badge.
Any future evaluation should be clear about what it observed and what it did not. That is how a recommendation stays useful when the person reading it has different needs, a different desk, or the nerve to open the back panel.
For current proof of how people shape Omarchy around the hardware they already use, visit Workstations.