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In recent years, quality of laptops have been hit or miss with more catastrophic failures early in the laptop's lifespan. This decrease in reliability was accompanied by many companies decreasing the length of the standard warranty from a year to 30 days. The Covid Pandemic has also brought about levels of greedflation as prices have gone up due to rarity of parts but have not necessarily come back down to pre-Pandemic levels after the parts are plentiful again. Though most machines will last 3 years, users should always ALWAYS purchase warranties for their products for at least 3 years if possible and use Dropbox and/or backup programs like Time Machine on Mac, Windows backup on PC, or Crashplan internet cloud backup to safe guard your data.
From 2021-2023, SHASS IT observed a higher than usual hardware failure rate in computer equipment, including equipment that arrived new in box that wouldn't turn on. We were also observing some new laptops with in this time period experiencing component failures after 1 or 2 years. So far in 2024, the product lines appear to be better made and with significantly fewer reports of outright failures.
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