I doubt it. Instead they are focused on chasing down profits by engineering out the value. My family has several 'copies' of a laptop from the same company, on

I doubt it. Instead they are focused on chasing down profits by engineering out the value. My family has several 'copies' of a laptop from the same company, one of which is the newer model, by one year. The newer model is flimsy and has required multiple repairs to the display, hinges, keyboard, case, etc... Parts are easy to source for the newer model but impossible to find for the older one, although naturally we haven't needed any yet.