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The problem isn't Dell, but which Dell. An IdeaPad from Lenovo will be even worse. The consumerific lines, including high-end ones, aren't meant to be serviced
by blagie 3y ago
The problem isn't Dell, but which Dell. An IdeaPad from Lenovo will be even worse.
The consumerific lines, including high-end ones, aren't meant to be serviced. They're designed to skim off every ounce and mm. So many computers have SSDs and RAM soldered onto the motherboard now, and are held together with increasing amounts of snaps and glue.
For Dell, the equivalent of ThinkPad is the Precision series, as well as some of the higher-end Latitude laptops. I've been servicing my ancient Precision for years until it completely died. Everything was replaceable.
- jszymborski 3y agoGood to know. Thankfully the laptop market has broadened and I now know to avoid both vendors.
- blagie 3y agoOverall, quality has been continuing to drop, not improve, across the board. It's not clear who is better. Dell / Lenovo / Apple are still sort of the go-to for good reason.
- red-iron-pine 3y agoThat has generally been my experience as well. Not that HP or Fujitsu or whatever won't get the job done but most of the work laptops I've used are Dells, and I've used Apple and Thinkpads at home. If I needed a new laptop now I'd probably lean on a Thinkpad T series and put Ubuntu or Fedora on it.
- jszymborski 3y agoI'll be patronising framework for my next laptop.
- blagie 3y agoI won't be. My next laptop will be a ThinkPad. I need a 4k display. I'd also like (but don't need) an NVidia GPU capable of accelerating ML models. The display is the showstopper. I'd also like a mechanical keyboard. ... but boy is it close. Hopefully, two laptops from now.