That's one way to bypass quality control.
  • Corroded@leminal.spaceEnglish
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    11 months ago

    Isn’t this pretty common in a lot of consumer electronics? Pretty sure power banks and hard drives frequently have weights added to them

    • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.eeEnglish
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      11 months ago

      Only in cheap chinese shit. Don’t buy cheap chinese shit. Heavy stuff is heavy because transformers and huge MOSFETs are pricey.

    • Zozano@aussie.zoneEnglish
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      11 months ago

      I’ll also argue you shouldn’t skimp out on a motherboard.

      I once owned an Asus Ranger VII. When I turned it on for the very first time, it lost its magic dust, and fried my RAM.

      RMA found the MB was faulty, so they covered the RAM too.

      This is from ASUS too, so I can only imagine how the chances of this sort of accident rises as you reduce the cost.

      • TrickDacy@lemmy.worldEnglish
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        11 months ago

        I don’t think I’ll ever buy an asus board again. I’ve had so many problems over the years with their boards. I used to think they were quality

          • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.eeEnglish
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            11 months ago

            Fucking thank you! I feel like I am taking crazy pills when these kids start praising ASUS “quality” and my 20 years in IT and 30 years of being a PC building lad has taught me that Asus and acer are some of the cheapest, most garbage crap you can buy.

              • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.eeEnglish
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                11 months ago

                Buy a specific laptop. Not a brand. Brands are a guide at the very best but are generally no indication of how YOURS will work. Also don’t buy brand new models. Get something that’s been out for a few months or longer. Read the reviews and people online who were dumb and bought it when it was brand new. Hell, even get a refurbished model because you know a human being has looked over it from top to bottom and replaced the weakest part that already broke.

            • ABCDE@lemmy.worldEnglish
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              11 months ago

              I’d go 1. Acer 2. Asus 3. Dell

              That’s just from my experience. Acer are the most wank I’ve ever had the misfortune to come across. Asus are little better, but slightly. Constant overheating, super noisy laptops. Dell was almost as bad (if not worse in some ways) in that they were stuttering and super loud. How can you produce gaming laptops, send replacements which still have the same issues? Oh right, because it’s inherent in the models. How no one picked up on it is beyond me. Return the third one I got and never thought about getting one ever again.

              Went for a MacBook and never looked back. My Switch, Xbox and Deck do me for games.

              • Aniki 🌱🌿@lemm.eeEnglish
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                11 months ago

                I’d agree with that completely. I’m on a Dell now that I LOVE but it’s one of their top of the line XPS that was meant to go up against the Macbook. My work Latitude is a festering pile of dog shit. I constantly am overheating and locking up solid. The fan never stops running, and I’ve had to open it up twice to clean up the fan vents so the cooling system could pathetically grumble along. The thing probably needs the cooling system lapped and thermal paste re-done but that’s way more work than I’m willing to do for a work machine.