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by tymscar 796 days ago
I don’t know where you are from, but in the EU and UK, consumers get 4-6 years of hardware warranty, on all tech products. Look into the legislation. I got a MacBook replaced after 5 years.
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There is certainly no such legislation in the UK.
Im not sure why are you so certain about it. I am living in the uk and the example I gave about the MacBook happened here. The law in question is the consumer rights act of 2015, specifically section 105. Scroll down on the page and read it. I invoked it 3 times already with different companies successfully.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/15/section/19/note...

Section 105 explains explicitly that it's not a warranty:

>For example, the statutory right may not be breached and so a consumer would not be able to obtain a remedy if, say, a very cheap kettle stopped working fully after four years, as a reasonable person might not expect a bottom of the range kettle to last that long.

We’re not talking about a cheap kettle however, are we?
You said

> but in the EU and UK, consumers get 4-6 years of hardware warranty, on all tech products

And thats true. A kettle isn’t a “tech product”. If it is one of the expensive IOT kettles, then it’s covered.