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The key self-inflicted difficulty with PC laptop vendors is that they can't help but dilute the value of their own laptop model lines. Even when they build a solid pc laptop model - sooner or later the marketing dept comes along and pitches a low-cost cannibalization of the model lines.

Macbooks sell used because they haven't been diluted, but as a buyer who is willing to buy quality used equipment - I'm not willing to try an sift out is this the good lattitude model year or the shitty one. Was this the good years for the Carbons or after they injected a low cost line with the same name but one letter difference.

Also, bizzare manufacturer specific laptop customizations, especially from HP are usually a big minus - eg a while back they had 3gb vid cards when everything else at that grade was 4gb or weird incompatible bioses with "carfax" tracking bs

Really they do they same with desktops too - it's why I build my own desktops.