The Real Story Behind Laptops
By betox324
@betox324 (1)
Panama
August 24, 2009 5:36pm CST
They were built to last longer than three years of extremely continuous usage. They were built to unsure us humans that we didn't need a pen and paper to write good articles. They were built to cover all our necesities. Then what happened?
There is evidence that laptops older than 2002 lasted much longer than these new ones. I have seen 1998 laptop's still working with Windows XP (with the risk of suffering a hardrive breakdown.) So why our new HP Pavilons are been sent to the "mechanic" because the OS failed? So why our brand new Acers are having they're motherboards and keyboards overheated? Maybe we could blame the thais and the chinese for building that kind of crap for export. Maybe we could just learn how to take care of our laptops.
Really and truly it is not about how we treat the laptop. Is how we... lets see... use it? lol :-)
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4 responses
@lynnemg (4529)
• United States
25 Aug 09
In my opinion, laptops are as they are now because they now also market a cooling pad for them. The cooling pad sits under the laptop and continuously blows cool air to keep the laptop from overheating. If laptops worked as well as they once did, there would be no need for a cooling pad, which cost approximately $25.oo. So, for those of us who know how hot laptops get and have seen them get to hot, we will invest that money to try to help our laptop and keep it from overheating.
Honestly, I think that things are intentionally made to have a shorter life than ever before just so us, as consumers will buy more. If everyone who ever bought a laptop never had to worry about the way it works, sales would probably drop quite a bit. Companies that make them do not want to lose business, so in order to help prevent that, they had to find a way to make a good enough product to keep retunr customers but bad enough that the need to return will be there.
@AliasAurora (17)
• United States
25 Aug 09
I've never met a laptop that agreed with me. They always get broken one way or another. Now I have a desktop and it's a beautiful thing.
@amitavroy (4819)
• India
25 Aug 09
yes with laptop one major issue is the heating thing. even when i have my compaq laptop, it had a very good and high configuration. but then it use to heat up real fast and that is why it never worked properly. i then bough a mini laptop from acer. a 10 inch one and it works just fine. it runs on an intel atom processor and that is nice was to reduce the heat produced by the laptop. it never gets too hot even when it is on for more than 2 to 3 hours.
