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NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

It’s an Asus Zenbook btw if you’re wondering.

Of fucking course it’s an asus. There’s your problem right there. They don’t know what the hell they’re doing, and no one should ever buy anything this company makes.

Source: I have also been burned by them, and only afterwards did I hear a lot of other people’s horror stories. It’s a shit company.

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alphapuggle@programming.dev ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Their tag line is “in search of incredibly” for a reason, they sure as fuck haven’t found it!

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kalpol@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
Is this new? I have some 10 year old ish Asus motherboards that have been really solid

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- NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  I’m not sure. My Asus laptop is about 5-7 years old (just woke up and can’t quite do the math…). They’ve also really been screwing up on the security front: www.youtube.com/watch?v=xC8qfXxAhAw
  
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irelephant@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
I had one die on me out of nowhere, the fans would start spinning, but nothing else would happen.
I googled it and the top solution is to put it away for a few years and forget about it, then, it miraculously starts working again.
Hasn’t worked for me so far.

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blackbeards_bounty@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
What do you consider a good laptop manufacturer?

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- NeatNit@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
  You know, that’s a great question that I don’t have a good answer to. I don’t have enough experience with laptops so take this with a bucketful of salt, but I think:
  
  Framework looks amazing, but perhaps a bit niche: frame.work (next time I’m in the market for a laptop, I think this is what I’ll get)
  
  MSI is alright I think? So is Dell, maybe?
  
  In my head HP has an absolutely dreadful reputation, but that’s just because of printers. A friend of mine is pleased with her HP laptop.
  
  Lenovo, I’m not sure. They’ve had an inexcusable security blunder in the past which made me write them off ( www.youtube.com/watch?v=-enHfpHMBo4 ) but maybe they’ve turned things around, I really don’t know.
  
  The laptop market is in a really poor state, other than macbooks (which aren’t really relevant for this discussion for obvious reasons) it’s a race to the bottom and everyone’s making compromises that I really don’t want to see.
  
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