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Originally Posted by Ralph Sir Edward
Buy early, pay much...
I have found over the last decade, that buying relatively early in the production curve usually gets you the most durable product. The companies are trying to build a market, and once built, they try to build and sell cheap.
I found this in e-book readers, CFL bulbs, and LED bulbs. The one I bought in the early mass marketing lasted much longer than the ones I bought later, when they were much cheaper.
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At least two laptop manufacturers have been known to build early batches making sure that they had the best IPS screen, the best and fastest hard drives, most silent fans, were QA'd to perfection regarding housing, and even had their mainboards overclocked by 10%. This would give those laptops stellar reviews.
Later batches would still have parts of the same specifications (IPS screen, 7200 RPM hard drive), but cheaper/lesser versions and they were noisier. QA was also much less which led to problems with the laptop's casing, and they were certainly not overclocked, and thus slower than the ones reviewed.
I think such practices should be fined.