On 8/1/19 7:14 PM, William Park via talk wrote:
On Thu, Aug 01, 2019 at 11:15:43AM -0400, D. Hugh Redelmeier via talk wrote:
We bought two Asus ux305ca notebooks about three years ago. The Microsoft Store had a remarkably good deal on them. I'm not the only GTALUGger to buy this notebook. Lesson here: Don't buy Asus laptop, if you want reliability.
The lesson should be don't buy the least expensive product if you want reliability. I am typing this on a 6+ year old Asus laptop with a couple of 256G SDDs and I have not had a problem with it. Most manufacturers will produce products that are scaled back with the least expensive components. I have a few "cheap" HP,ACER and Dell laptops that have been trashed in a couple of years in that category. I would be willing to bet that Microsoft had Asus make a special production run with parts of "less expensive" quality so that they could meet that "good deal" price point. Remember. You only get what you pay for(on a good day). -- Alvin Starr || land: (647)478-6285 Netvel Inc. || Cell: (416)806-0133 alvin@netvel.net ||