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on Saturday April 05 2014, @03:21PM
from the moore's-law-still-trucks-ahead dept.
from the moore's-law-still-trucks-ahead dept.
Question for the lentils out there: What makes and models of laptops are good these days? Traditionally, you could just get an IBM ThinkPad if you were willing and able to pay extra for quality, but judging by reviews, they aren't as consistent as they used to be. A 'nice' laptop has to get a lot of things right: fast internals, sturdy case, quality keyboard, excellent battery life, and good heat management, to name a few. Are there any manufacturers that sell machines worth buying anymore, or do you have to compromise?
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(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 05 2014, @10:42PM
Pay a couple hundred extra bucks for the damage and service warranties
I'm so ancient that I remember when quality was something by which companies lived or died.
"Extended warranty" would have been ridiculed.
Back then, there were actually Consumer Reporters [wikipedia.org] on TeeVee who would tell you which products stunk on ice.
With Big Media having sold their souls to corporations (bad review == no income from ads), you will never get that kind of honesty from the presstitutes and corporate-friendly propagandists that have existed since Reagan and the demise of the Fairness Doctrine in 1987.
Media Consolidation is another element is the disappearance of veracity in media; when the vendor and the advertiser are one and the same, expect lots of truthiness.
Regulatory Capture (aka The Revolving Door) has been instrumental in neutering gov't as well.
Lewis Powell (a whore for the cancer industry, later a SCOTUS judge) should be very proud of his "accomplishments". [google.com]
I grieve daily for my country and, by extension, my species.
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(Score: 2) by Tork on Sunday April 06 2014, @05:58AM
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(Score: 1) by Zenc on Sunday April 06 2014, @06:15AM
I'm no Spring Chicken, either. I do recall a day when "Quality" seemed to matter more.
No company has disappointed me in this regard more than Sony. Their fall has been nothing short of tragic.
But no matter how glorious of a past I misremember, no one offered a 6 year on-site Accidental Damage warranty as standard fare.
Not even Craftsman. You still had to sweep up the remaining parts of whatever tool you were misusing, hitch up the buckboard (or at least bumpstart the Corvair), and visit the catalog store in town.
But yeah, you don't make it in mainstream media (or Govt) these days without being a shill for someone. On the other hand, "Trust Us" just doesn't cut it anymore as both Govt and Business are beginning to discover.