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That's not normal for Dell. Believe me. We bought a boat load of very recent Precision series and getting 12-18 months out of them would be considered a miracle

by baz00 3y ago

That's not normal for Dell. Believe me. We bought a boat load of very recent Precision series and getting 12-18 months out of them would be considered a miracle. I've got a dead 5550 in the cupboard (thermal failure) and my 7670 is dying now as well. Also I have so many blown up Dell docks I look like a far Eastern recycling slum at the moment. Their monitors are good though!

nirui 3y ago
I think the problem here is "recent". Many vendors stopped making laptops as they used to. You would think with less moving parts in those modern laptops they should fail less... not the case. Now days, simply pulling the USB-C charging cable too hard in the wrong way (say tripped over it) maybe enough to kill some boards. I learned it the hard way so just don't ever do it :)
- baz00 3y ago
  Yeah that last one gets me. The USB-C connectors should always be on a replaceable board. The ex wife threw a cushion at me and broke the USB-C connector off my T470 motherboard. Fortunately it has a traditional charger hole in it that still works. That was one of the many reasons I divorced her :)
RedShift1 3y ago
Same experience with Dell Latitudes. Failures we've had: ethernet port broken, motherboard dead, bottom cover cracks, paint flaking off 5 minutes of being outside the box, battery swollen, touchpad buttons broken, USB C ports broken, heating up like crazy and draining the battery whilst in standby, keyboard missing keypresses, ... And that's just off the top of my head. After 5 years we're now using HP ProBooks and EliteBooks but already had to service some of those too unfortunately...
sumtechguy 3y ago
All fleets of computers have that 'oddball' that lasts forever. That he has a dell that will not die is kind of interesting. I have an HP laptop that is only kicking the bucket because the plastic is starting to become brittle. The rest of the computer is fine (other than the battery). I know that for the type of HP I bought that is not normal for a computer from 2012. The MSI I bought to replace it is well on its way to rubbish after 2-3 years (less than that as I noticed these things a year ago).
Narishma 3y ago
I don't know. I have a couple of old Dell laptops that still work fine, a 2008 Core 2 Duo Latitude and a 2010 1st gen Core i3 Alienware M15x. I didn't even bother to replace the HDD or upgrade the RAM, just switched them from Windows to Debian.

by baz00 3y ago

nirui 3y ago

I think the problem here is "recent". Many vendors stopped making laptops as they used to. You would think with less moving parts in those modern laptops they should fail less... not the case. Now days, simply pulling the USB-C charging cable too hard in the wrong way (say tripped over it) maybe enough to kill some boards. I learned it the hard way so just don't ever do it :)

baz00 3y ago
Yeah that last one gets me. The USB-C connectors should always be on a replaceable board. The ex wife threw a cushion at me and broke the USB-C connector off my T470 motherboard. Fortunately it has a traditional charger hole in it that still works. That was one of the many reasons I divorced her :)

RedShift1 3y ago

Same experience with Dell Latitudes. Failures we've had: ethernet port broken, motherboard dead, bottom cover cracks, paint flaking off 5 minutes of being outside the box, battery swollen, touchpad buttons broken, USB C ports broken, heating up like crazy and draining the battery whilst in standby, keyboard missing keypresses, ... And that's just off the top of my head. After 5 years we're now using HP ProBooks and EliteBooks but already had to service some of those too unfortunately...

sumtechguy 3y ago

All fleets of computers have that 'oddball' that lasts forever. That he has a dell that will not die is kind of interesting. I have an HP laptop that is only kicking the bucket because the plastic is starting to become brittle. The rest of the computer is fine (other than the battery). I know that for the type of HP I bought that is not normal for a computer from 2012. The MSI I bought to replace it is well on its way to rubbish after 2-3 years (less than that as I noticed these things a year ago).

Narishma 3y ago

I don't know. I have a couple of old Dell laptops that still work fine, a 2008 Core 2 Duo Latitude and a 2010 1st gen Core i3 Alienware M15x. I didn't even bother to replace the HDD or upgrade the RAM, just switched them from Windows to Debian.