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Originally Posted by HarryT
Me too. I have a top-of-the-range Dell laptop which I bought next business day cover for, because that's not something I could afford to replace out of ready cash.
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I've got a completely decked out Precision 7510; the most powerful 15.6 inch laptop available at the time I bought it. The exception is the graphics card: it's a Quadro M2000M, comparable with a GTX 965M. Had I bought a gaming laptop with the same specs, I'd have gotten a GTX 980M, but I'd only get a 1 year warranty.
So, I opted for the 5 years NBD warranty at DELL, instead of (even more) graphics power by buying an MSI, because I only play older games. I have a huge backlog. By the time I get around to The Witcher 3, the average phone will be able to run games like that.
I bought this laptop in the hopes of foregoing a desktop, so I also have the dock. Thanks to Windows 10, I now also have a new desktop, because the dock *STILL* works like shit 20 years on. Screen settings such as font sizes reset to default each time the laptop docks and undocks, not to mention other settings... so I'm back to my old setup with a desktop as a main computer, and an (almost) comparable laptop as second/backup.
I built the desktop myself, and each part of it has (at least) 2 years of warranty. As long as the mainboard and graphics card don't break, I'm good. .Even a defective graphics card 2 years from now would only be a minor inconvenience.
I'm not really concerned. I only have had one mainboard go toast on me in 20 years of buying my own computers. Ironically, it was 6 weeks out of the 3 years warranty, unreplaceable for an economical price seeing it was a 3 year old computer, and it was the most expensive computer I've ever built, based on two Xeon CPU's. 2004-2007, RIP... Its successor from 2008, which had a big upgrade in 2011/2012, still runs. Gave it away a few months ago.