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This is my experience too, when buying a high-end laptop, I expect it to just work. If my time was worth dealing with shitty QA, I'd buy a low end laptop.

• Const-me 10y ago
  That high-end / low-end thing is mostly a marketing BS invented to maximize manufacturer’s profits. Works OK in the sense their profit is fine, but if you’re a consumer, you better rely on the specs only and ignore the marketing.
  • WildUtah 10y ago
    Or you could buy Apple and deal with all the inherent drawbacks but enjoy how it usually just works. And compared to Windows or Linux laptops it does mostly just work. Of course the list of drawbacks gets longer and longer…
  • e2kp 10y ago
    Specs dont matter much anymore. Any dual core laptop can do what most people need. What matters is the build quality, QA, battery life, screen, heat dissipation. All things you cant infer solely based on specs.
    • Const-me 10y ago
      On modern laptops, build quality and QA are more or less OK (or “equally bad” if you’re a pessimist). Because warranty returns are expensive, and also because competition. If you buy a laptop to watch youtube and read e-mails, sure, any dual core will do, but for a professional, performance matters. Speaking of performance, I wouldn’t buy this dell because the CPU has no L4 cache. Some tasks, like compiling C++, benefit a lot from that 64-128 MB on-chip DRAM found in some previous-generation CPUs. Specs still matter. Battery life is measured in hours; screens are measured in pixels, inches and percentage of Adobe RGB.