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Hmm, interesting. I kept most of my old laptops and only 1 out of about 10 has failed; A Toshiba Tecra S1 from early 2000s. The GPU chip on that one failed and it would have been too much hassle to repair. (soldered on the mainboard) Other than that, I still have a Core 2 Duo HP laptop from ~2007-8 that's fine, but I haven't been using for a few years, a 2011 Sandy Bridge Thinkpad that's still seeing semi-frequent use, and a ~2017 Kaby Lake daily driver. Actually, I have another Core 2 Duo from the same 2008 time frame which used CCFL backlighting, and that did fail. I did replace the backlighting with LED strips and it is usable, but it's a bad hack. So you can count that as a failure as well. Other than that, I don't know what failures you're referring too. One of the old HDD did have some failures at some point (after SMART testing), but I used the manufacturer's software to map around the bad sectors. So in my experience, hardware is very reliable. Truth be told, I bought the Kaby Lake (a Dell Inspiron) with water damage, and I did the mainboard repair myself (which was not worth it from a time perspective, it took me at least a week of debugging, going through the schematics, checking the signals from the superIO chip, only to find that I only needed to replace a couple of 0805 resistors). Maybe I don't count minor things as failures, if I can work around them? The Sandy Bridge Thinkpad does have a tendency to overheat, to the point where it shuts down. Cleaning it and replacing the thermal paste only partially solves the issue, so I've been running it underclocked mostly. But that only comes up when all cores are under 100% utilization. |