Are they throwing their laptops down a flight of stairs on a regular basis? What exactly is breaking? My Dad is still rocking a 4 year old "POS $500 Costco la

Are they throwing their laptops down a flight of stairs on a regular basis? What exactly is breaking? My Dad is still rocking a 4 year old "POS $500 Costco laptop" and it runs as well as it did the day I bought it. I added an SSD and upgraded the memory to 8GB and it's more than fast enough for everything the normal person would do outside of kids that are trying to game (in which case you shouldn't be buying a laptop anyway).