Every three years like clockwork I have to replace a laptop because they fall apart. This year my Asus decided to uninstall its touchpad drivers - this after two blue screens. Frankly the touchpad sucks anyway, I won’t miss it
Can someone recommend me a laptop I won’t have to replace? All I use is chrome and Word, and the only games I play on my laptop are from the 90s so it doesn’t need to be a gaming rig
Depends on preferences and aptitudes. If you’re on a budget but are a little handy, then your best bet it to buy a used or broken and repairable enterprise or pro-sumer laptop. Prosumer just means hardware meant for tech savvy consumers. I prefer prosumer over enteprise because they typically have more creature comforts like 4k touchscreens and good speakers. They’re both great ways to go though.
I’ve had a Dell XPS 13 2017 since 2021. The person who owned it before me sat on it and broke the screen, they just ended up giving it to me and I fixed it up and have used it for near 3 years now. The sad part is that it died from an internal short, so I’d need to get a motherboard to fix it(or develop skills and tools worth tens of thousands of dollars and fix it myself but fuck that).
I replaced the screen and battery, both dead simple to do, and it was running like a champ. A rock with a screwdriver and opposable thumbs could do these repairs, you’re technically adept enough to know what a driver is so I’ve got faith that you can turn some screws to save some money.
50 dollars a year to own a laptop is pretty fuckin cheap if you ask me, amortized many times over.