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Originally Posted by Katsunami
Yes, as long as you have Western quality control. It is very well known that some Chinese manufacturers produce stuff exactly to spec in the first few weeks or months, until the commissioning company is sure that everything's well on the road.
And then, the Chinese use a bit thinner plastic here, and some less strong hinges there, or even a similar, but cheaper screen from another manufacturer... until you pay for high-end stuff but get mediocre products.
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How likely that is to happen depends on the vendor contracting with them. Play too many games and the vendor has other companies they can deal with.
In this case, I suspect Dell signed off on the keyboard design used.
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I wouldn't call a €2000 workstation-class laptop, that's being positioned by Dell capable of handling anything and everything... cheap. That's the lowest price you can get it for in the Netherlands.
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I wouldn't either. But the assumption is that a laptop will travel, and I don't think they expect it to get the sort of
sustained usage you put in.
(The guy I know these days who does that is a developer whose $DAYJOB requires a fair amount of travel, like "We're sending you to Tokyo for a week!" unexpectedly. He does his development work on his laptop because he
can do it while traveling, and pounds the crap out of machines.)
There are several laptops here, but they don't get anywhere near that heavy a usage. I
have gone through several replacement keyboards and mice for the desktop, but those are separate components.
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I could just get a new €600 laptop every two years and throw them away when they start falling apart, and I'd be cheaper...
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You could. Or, since you don't travel that much, you can do what you appear to be doing and shift back to a desktop.
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Dennis