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So the plastic chassis of any budget laptop is intentionally designed to disintegrate after about two years of normal use, right? (hexbear.net)

submitted 2 days ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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Every laptop I've ever owned has been at the 500USD or less price point, and every laptop I've ever owned has had some kind of catastrophic structural failure in the chassis that causes the entire thing to gradually disintegrate after about two years, like clockwork.

Like, that must absolutely be something they do as an explicit design goal that forces you to buy a new disposable laptop just after the standard warranty expires, right? It's not just me being bad at computer or something?

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[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (2 children)

Get a framework laptop next time, very repairable

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

lol aren't those all $1000 plus laptops?

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 day ago

Some are fairly normal priced

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

I got one of those, the keyboard broke, and they stopped selling replacement keyboards.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

No are you kidding??

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Not kidding, one of the worst laptops I've owned.

I ended up needing to do weird repairs to it a lot in two years, which is not to their credit, since normally laptops just work fine for that long. Then after two years the keyboard failed, but their site said they only sold them with new laptops, so what's the point.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 days ago

that's so disappointing good thing I could never afford one

better to go with a popular thinkpad I guess ; at least there'll always be 3rd party and community support

until communists are in control and we can have goddamned standardized devices and parts.