Hi Alvin, On Fri, 2 Aug 2019 09:35:47 -0400 Alvin Starr via talk <talk@gtalug.org> 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
On 8/1/19 7:14 PM, William Park via talk wrote: 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.
You will not lose your money, but as the odds will be fairly even, you will not win anything :)
Remember. You only get what you pay for(on a good day).
Well said!