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the battery is designed to last about 3 years. Since I'm a cheap bastard, I make mine last 5-7 years.
I only like "high-end laptops" for my daily driver, my nvidia RTX-3060 based gaming laptop was almost $1800 after I got done tricking it out with 2 x 2TB 10Gbe nvme's + 64GB of RAM. I am planning on it lasting 5+ years just to get my ROI back..
For parts made in China vs say, Japan or elsewhere - that was a thing 5+ years ago with "bulging capacitors". All parts are NOT the same, there are grades and quality levels, same as wine or cars or a wooden table.
As a guy who has repaired laptops and tablets and phones, there ARE less replace-able parts these days, compared to 10 or 20 years ago - or what was simply a single FRU in a prior gen is now a one-piece-whole-kit-and-kaboodle assembly. For example, some manufacturers wil soldier the DIMMs and CPU to the motherboard, thus making it un-replaceable for 99% of people. This is part of the "Right to Repair Laws", where we have to sue & fine xxxhole companies like Apple.
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I've got an HP DV6-6135DX that is 12 years old and still holds a decent charge. It is a pretty beefy model that was meant as a desktop replacement with great graphics for the time. I've also got a Toshiba Ultralight that is a year newer and hasn't held a charge for several years, but still works great attached to a TV for accessing movies on my server.
They've both been plugged in around 95% of their lives. The ironic part is the battery in the HP is easily replacable, but the Toshiba would have to be completely taken apart and not a job for the faint of heart.
I promise you no one is building laptops and planning their obsolescence. They don't want to earn a reputation that they make crap. If I buy a laptop and it NEEDS replaced in 3 years? I'm buying someone else next time.
Bottom line is the more you spend upfront, the longer your laptop is going to last. Few things fry me more then someone that pays $400 for a computer and constantly complains how bad it is. This same person then buys an Apple for $2,000 and proceeds to rave about it and complain even more about Windows.
Spend $2,000 on a Windows laptop and it will be every bit as good, maybe even better.
I bought my current laptop 7 years ago. 7. I can't even believe it. Never been upgraded, battery lasts about 30 minutes, I haven't even had to refresh windows...and it STILL doesn't need replaced. It was $850 on sale for just under $700. And it was an actual sale because the following week the price went back to $850 (I rarely trust 'sales' on computers...usually just a way to discontinue old stock).
There's a Youtuber for NorthRidgeFix that says he sees more recurring ASUS issues than anyone else. You can search ASUS in his page and there are dozens of videos on ASUS repairs.
I buy Dell remanufactured laptops, and they've been lasting 4-5 years.
The new I-7 model is very fast and it's running on Windows 11 which takes a little while to get used to. My old I-5 just didn't have enough RAM I assume.
The new laptop doesn't look like it's ever been used. May be a inventory liquidation unit out of the warehouse.
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