This is scary. I read somewhere on the internet (don't remember the website, it was a tech site like Tom's, I read it on my phone so can't give you the URL) that laptop manufacturers are making laptops that are "designed to fail" within three to four years.
The author wrote that big brands like HP and Dell are using something called "high lead solder" which will fail in a course of three or four years of usage,
and went on to say that this was an "intentional tactic" to force the user to keep purchasing new hardware - as computer hardware is not advancing at a stellar rate any more, if the hardware doesn't break, an average user can keep using the same computer for like 10 years before feeling the need to upgrade. Hence manufacturers found this way to program a death into the devices they're making. Is this true?
The author wrote that big brands like HP and Dell are using something called "high lead solder" which will fail in a course of three or four years of usage,
and went on to say that this was an "intentional tactic" to force the user to keep purchasing new hardware - as computer hardware is not advancing at a stellar rate any more, if the hardware doesn't break, an average user can keep using the same computer for like 10 years before feeling the need to upgrade. Hence manufacturers found this way to program a death into the devices they're making. Is this true?