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.

But one should realistically be able to expect a €500 laptop to last more than two years, right?

Even when buying a mid-grade device I kinda expect it to not be complete dogfight garbage and break in stupid ways two days after the warranty ends.