[leptons]

How about I name a company that sold us a laptop that required 7 motherboard replacements, and after the 8th time it crapped out they told us it would cost $1200 to fix it from then on out. We signed up on a class action lawsuit along with tons of other people having the same exact dead motherboard problem, and we won.

The company was Apple.

[dijit]

Curious, was that laptop running with nvidia?

Because the reason Apple really dislikes nvidia was because nvidia sort of lied about the thermal spec (much like intel does, except intel could downclock); and it caused a lot of GPUs to kill their motherboards: https://blog.greggant.com/posts/2021/10/13/apple-vs-nvidia-w...

[simonw]

That was in 2012, right?

Their hardware has got a whole lot better in the past 12 years.

My guess is that they learned important quality lessons from that class action lawsuit too.

[kergonath]

We’ve had our share of Dell lemons, too. Bad batches and problematic models happen, that’s life. If we have to go back 10 years to find an example of widespread problem, it’s not that bad.

[EricE]

Yeah, and now you know why Apple hasn't sourced NVIDIA stuff for years now, too.

[leptons]

And NVIDIA is now worth more than Apple, lol.