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If you don't want to be a hypocrite, you should also keep this in mind when buying from any company that partners with Wistron. Though it seems difficult to fin

• csharptwdec19 6y ago
  Wistron is the result of Acer spinning off a bunch of their brands in the late 90s. I remember slinging AOpen (Another Acer spinoff) motherboards and shortly after Acer spun off Wistron, AOpen started offering laptops from Wistron. Dell shortly thereafter offered same/similar models. They weren't very good; while thankfully my laptop was not a victim of the capacitor plague, they had some really bad design around the power port; over time just normal insert cycles would cause the connector to get loose and short in various ways. At one point I would have to 'shim' the plug in with paper to make sure that the contacts were well connected. The problem surfaced after a year, and after a factory repair, I got another year before the problem came back. Thankfully the real fix was to use a better 'plug', one that had a threaded base (i.e. a threaded hole goes through the plastic, a 'cap' holds it in place).
• teatree 6y ago
  Agree with you completely, I will try my best to avoid any products having Wistron as a supplier in future.