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I don't know, I think they would've gone with cheaper and cheaper materials and ended up with pretty much what Lenovo has nowadays. Dell and HP also had great
by jotm 4y ago
I don't know, I think they would've gone with cheaper and cheaper materials and ended up with pretty much what Lenovo has nowadays.
Dell and HP also had great business machines. I'm particularly fond of the Elitebook 8530/8730 - built like tanks, easy to repair, good keyboards, and still so thin for the time (even today, they look and feel good).
Quality went downhill ever since - newer models are still pretty good, but not as good as older ones. More plastic, fewer screws, trash keyboards, just kind of average for the price.
- scrlk 4y agoI'll give HP some credit for being the last out of the 3 major business laptop manufacturers to put 2 SO-DIMM slots on their flagship laptops (EliteBook 8xx series). Everyone else has moved to soldered RAM or 1 slot with soldered RAM.
- jotm 4y agoThey also still use 4 RAM slots and an MXM slot for the graphics card on their ZBook workstations. Sadly the CPU is soldered and availability of MXM cards seems to be extremely limited nowadays.