I just think we shouldn’t accept that cheaper consumer devices get built so poorly they just crumble to pieces after two years.
While I hate to call on the “everything was better back then” argument, a €500 laptop back in 2008 would be a shitty laptop, but it would remain functional while shitty for basically ever.
So many of these cheap laptops with super crappy Celeron processors just keep going even if they are slow as fuck and were barely tolerable back in the day. And when RAM or the storage device dies, you can replace them and keep the machine going. Not so much with many modern devices.
I feel like we’re literally engineering them to fail.
The way we stop accepting it is we stop buying them. Whoever bought a Lenovo Ideapad Flex or a Dell Inspiron needs to stop and take a second to do some research on repairability and build quality instead of buying based on a list of specs.
I just think we shouldn’t accept that cheaper consumer devices get built so poorly they just crumble to pieces after two years.
While I hate to call on the “everything was better back then” argument, a €500 laptop back in 2008 would be a shitty laptop, but it would remain functional while shitty for basically ever.
So many of these cheap laptops with super crappy Celeron processors just keep going even if they are slow as fuck and were barely tolerable back in the day. And when RAM or the storage device dies, you can replace them and keep the machine going. Not so much with many modern devices.
I feel like we’re literally engineering them to fail.
The way we stop accepting it is we stop buying them. Whoever bought a Lenovo Ideapad Flex or a Dell Inspiron needs to stop and take a second to do some research on repairability and build quality instead of buying based on a list of specs.