CAVOKNew Refrigerators, Washing Machines, Furniture and Tires Will All Have to Last Longer, Europe Mandates
ElchiThe spirit is willing, but the machine is spongy and bruised.
Bullshit. My aunt has a washing machine with all knobs and switches that’s probably 30+ years old and it still works fine.
They need to stop putting all these digital components into washing machines or make the boards standardized so they can be easily swapped out. These aren’t laptops that you toss after 3-5 years. Appliances should last 10-20 years.
Laptops should last longer than 3-5 years too. It should go without saying, but this is the internet.
Agreed but in most larger businesses swap out the laptops around 3-5 years.
Consumers use laptop 5-10+ until they die.
MalewareAgreed. Our policy are 3 years, but we need local resources for kind and stuff.
However, I don’t think you have to switch more often then 7-10 years if you do office work ( PowerPoint excel etc… ).
This said, laptops shouldn’t be a one way product, they should ( and there are brands who do this ) be upgradeable like tower pc‘s. That’s the significant step ahead. This is true for most electric consumables.
Framework like modular laptop would fix this. Need a new screen? No problem. Need a new processor? No problem.
Upgrade whatever is outdated and just that
Yeah but imagine if we had a laptop motherboard standard like desktops.
Instead of ATX it would be something like MLF - Modular Laptop Framework
Where there would be some board standard for laptop boards.
Then you get screen ribbon standards, keyboard ribbon standards, etc.
This would allow one to order a laptop case with screen, keyboard and touchpad. But you can pick your board, cpu, ram.
I know some companies have done GPU upgrades but how nice would it be to upgrade your 4 year old $3k laptop’s GPU?