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Advice needed.
What brand of laptops these days are decent quality.
In the last 6 months I've had an HP break within 2 months. They passed a credit under warranty.
Replaced it with a Lenovo Ideapad - Broke after 3 months.
They have issued another credit. Whats up with these things these days ??
 
Stokstert said:
They are not made to park your car on them.
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Very helpful thanks.
Maybe I should become a hostage negotiator, seeing as I can get a refund on a laptop after I park my car on it...
 
Baise said:
Advice needed.
What brand of laptops these days are decent quality.
In the last 6 months I've had an HP break within 2 months. They passed a credit under warranty.
Replaced it with a Lenovo Ideapad - Broke after 3 months.
They have issued another credit. Whats up with these things these days ??
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They all have horrible hinge designs that all fail. Basically only laptop with a tough chassis is a Mac because the whole body and hinge is unibody with aluminium.

Had Hp, Dell and Lenovo. Non of them were nearly as sturdy as the Mac Air I have now.

This repair guy sees the same.
 
Baise said:
Advice needed.
What brand of laptops these days are decent quality.
In the last 6 months I've had an HP break within 2 months. They passed a credit under warranty.
Replaced it with a Lenovo Ideapad - Broke after 3 months.
They have issued another credit. Whats up with these things these days ??
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Toughbooks will allow you to park your car on them. Dell has a rugged line too. Lenovo may be good.

For Windows PC, LG Gram is very durable and is light and looks sexy.

Usually the entry level stuff is cheaply made. The higher end devices are usually better build quality.
 
What pisses me off is Lenovo was so good you could use one as a murder weapon and it would barely even notice..... now however....
 
RudderVator said:
They all have horrible hinge designs that all fail. Basically only laptop with a tough chassis is a Mac because the whole body and hinge is unibody with aluminium.

Had Hp, Dell and Lenovo. Non of them were nearly as sturdy as the Mac Air I have now.

This repair guy sees the same.
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Planned obsolescence or moronic incompetence?
 
Baise said:
Whats up with these things these days ??
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Got an entry Lenovo through work over a year and a half ago. Still going strong (touch wood). What are you doing with these laptops that you're going through them like candy?
 
Ive been buying Lenovo Thinkbook 16’s lately, as they have H-series CPU’s in them and aren't super expensive, so are perfect dev machines, and have been pleasantly surprised.

IMO this is clearly a PBCAK issue though
 
Apple MacBook Air M1 at R16k. Sell a kidney if you have to. Change your life. Thank me later.
 
_kabal_ said:
Ive been buying Lenovo Thinkbook 16’s lately, as they have H-series CPU’s in them and aren't super expensive, so are perfect dev machines, and have been pleasantly surprised.

IMO this is clearly a PBCAK issue though
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Maybe he uses his machine in a humid or a dusty environment. Not everyone sits in the basement or some IT cubicle.
 
Mirai said:
Maybe he uses his machine in a humid or a dusty environment. Not everyone sits in the basement or some IT cubicle.
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I kind of have to assume that most people who don't specify they are in an unusual environment are in a usual environment.

Its obviously certainly possible, but then that's not a quality issue, is a wrong tool for the job issue - albeit entry-level laptops are pretty poor quality.


OP - elaborate on use-case and budget. Also what exactly broke?
 
We mostly buy Lenovo Thinkpad and Legions the last few years and they have been pretty solid. A few have clear signs of being dropped with bent corners etc and are still chugging along.
But if you stay away from the budget lines where the chassis is the first thing to get cut to the bottom dollar most should be fine.
 
I use my laptop for business and work in an office. I'm pedantic about my stuff and when I carry my laptop around it's in a sleeve, inside by bag.
The HP laptop bombed after 2 months - keyboard became unresponsive and took it to the agents. They deemed it to be a factory fault and credited me for a new one.
Having used HP laptops for 15 years plus I was advised that the quality these days is bad, so stay away.
Went over to Lenovo - New Ryzen 7 spec with SSD and 8GB of Ram. Machine was quick and slim and suited my needs perfectly.
After 3 months the trackpad on the left started collapsing and then the screen froze. After a hard reboot it would no longer connect to my external monitor. They suspected a faulty graphics card.
Took it to the agents and they DOA'd it saying the track pad was faulty. Have given me a credit to replace with another machine. The service guy at the Lenovo agents tells me they have had so many comebacks.
So start doing some research and every brand these days gets slated.
Dell - Crap quality
ASUS - Crap Quality
HP - Quality in recent years crap
Lenovo - Quality in recent years Crap
ACER - Bought a few over the years for the office and found hinges break easily - Can see for myself the quality is crap - so where the hell to now.
I use my laptop for business - email and a lot of the apps and programs I use are Web based, as well as banking and other Light work. I just need a fast reliable laptop that's fairly compact with a budget of about 15K
 
Baise said:
I use my laptop for business and work in an office. I'm pedantic about my stuff and when I carry my laptop around it's in a sleeve, inside by bag.
The HP laptop bombed after 2 months - keyboard became unresponsive and took it to the agents. They deemed it to be a factory fault and credited me for a new one.
Having used HP laptops for 15 years plus I was advised that the quality these days is bad, so stay away.
Went over to Lenovo - New Ryzen 7 spec with SSD and 8GB of Ram. Machine was quick and slim and suited my needs perfectly.
After 3 months the trackpad on the left started collapsing and then the screen froze. After a hard reboot it would no longer connect to my external monitor. They suspected a faulty graphics card.
Took it to the agents and they DOA'd it saying the track pad was faulty. Have given me a credit to replace with another machine. The service guy at the Lenovo agents tells me they have had so many comebacks.
So start doing some research and every brand these days gets slated.
Dell - Crap quality
ASUS - Crap Quality
HP - Quality in recent years crap
Lenovo - Quality in recent years Crap
ACER - Bought a few over the years for the office and found hinges break easily - Can see for myself the quality is crap - so where the hell to now.
I use my laptop for business - email and a lot of the apps and programs I use are Web based, as well as banking and other Light work. I just need a fast reliable laptop that's fairly compact with a budget of about 15K
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Stop buying consumer-aimed laptops or you'll always be asking for trouble. Go for a Dell Latitude, HP Pro/EliteBook, or Lenovo ThinkPad, etc. Great refurbished ones out there with balance of lengthy warranty.

Or get a Mac and never look back.
 
capd said:
Stop buying consumer-aimed laptops or you'll always be asking for trouble. Go for a Dell Latitude, HP Pro/EliteBook, or Lenovo ThinkPad, etc. Great refurbished ones out there with balance of lengthy warranty.

Or get a Mac and never look back.
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Ok cool thanks - would love a Macbook but everything we use is Windows and Microsoft office centric, so would just cause more frustration in the end.
Evetech have a decent spec Thinkpad in my price range - will look at that.
Seems you need to spend more these days for equivalent quality from 5 years ago. My kids have 6+ year old hand me down entry level laptops that take a beating and have had no issues and work like they did when they were new.
 
Baise said:
Ok cool thanks - would love a Macbook but everything we use is Windows and Microsoft office centric, so would just cause more frustration in the end.
Evetech have a decent spec Thinkpad in my price range - will look at that.
Seems you need to spend more these days for equivalent quality from 5 years ago. My kids have 6+ year old hand me down entry level laptops that take a beating and have had no issues and work like they did when they were new.
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All new laptops(bar mac as i have no exp) break these days, I've seen dells come straight out the box running slow. HPs packing up within months and acers are the most brittle of devices.

Lenovos were the most solid devices 10 years ago but I dont know about now...
 
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