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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 weeks 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 weeks ago (9 children)

Thinkpads and other non consumer laptops (Dell and HP though they are seen as B tier to Thinkpads) i.e. use business laptops are the only ones meant to stand up to continual abuse within a corporate/work setting.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (3 children)

Eh, kind of but I even found Thinkpads to be lacking there, they start showing wear and tear symptoms after around a year tops.

Unfortunately, literally the only company that produces laptops with some actual durability and build quality is Apple. I would really like to be proven wrong here but so far I haven't.

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

True though in contrast with Thinkpads you can buy a lower spec model and not worry about soldered ram or in a few cases have the option for a GPU swap out or even CPU swapout/upgrade (this is for the PGA prev gens only though).

[–] [email protected] 0 points 2 weeks ago* (last edited 2 weeks ago) (1 children)

Oh yeah the repairability/upgradability of Macbooks is absolutely horrendous but at least you can be pretty sure it's gonna last you a while unless you have an accident with it.

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

Truth as well, they really can be driven for at least a decade reliably

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