<i>To be fair most electronics these days are not made with fix-ability in mind but them again that takes extra effort on the engineers part which would make the unit more expensive and less people would buy it.</i><p>Manufacturers like this sort of argument, but often don&#x27;t seem to have a lot of actual evidence to support their position. If using a certain kind of custom screw is necessary to save a few mm of thickness and 0.5lb of weight in a new laptop, there&#x27;s a concrete benefit to the customer. If using a certain kind of custom screw really makes no detectable difference at all to the spec, but the only global supplier of such screws has an exclusive contract with the original manufacturer to supply them so no-one else can get hold of replacement screws without a silly amount of effort, that&#x27;s just artificially limiting third party repair options. At some point that sort of behaviour justifies regulatory intervention to keep the market competitive.