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  • carzian@lemmy.mltoPrivacy@lemmy.ml•Which company has a better reputation Lenovo or ASUS?
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    22 days ago

    Framework if you have the money. Otherwise Dell.

    Every single lenovo product that isn’t a thinkpad is a nightmare to repair. Their keyboards are plastic rivited in place, so you have to swap out the entire top half of the chassis to replace the keyboard. I’ve had unending issues with their ideapad line motherboards. That laptop went through two replacement motherboards and was out of commission for months. The build quality of their all-in-one is terrible and you have to do a complete disassembly to add ram. I say this as someone who had to do small business IT. I have fixed 4 separate models from them and each one had terrible build quality. Also, dont forget about the superfish scandal.

    Asus is fine. I and several friends have had many of their laptops. Though one of my friends had the motherboard on his TUF line completely died out of no where.

    Dell’s build quality and repairablitity remains solid. Easy to source replacement parts. Good Linux support. I’ve had the fewest problems with their hardware

    Also checkout framework if you have the money. Good stuff from them. Really how laptops should be. Each part has it’s own qr code so you can immediately identify it and get a replacement if needed. It’s amazing.

  • carzian@lemmy.mltoLinux@lemmy.ml•Why did PinePhone fail?
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    4 months ago

    So I think there were a few issues.

    • the original pinephone was basically too slow to be usable
    • there were a few hardware quirks that had to be fixed in software but made mainlining drivers for it difficult
    • the lack of community updates (and you could argue overall community management) caused some developers to move away while also impeded pine64s ability to attract new developers
    • the lack of any sort of funding for developers made it difficult for people to work on as any more than a hobby (not necessarily pine64’s fault, but it’s the reality)
    • poor battery life (better idle and sleep support would have been software issues but the hardware was designed to be cheap instead of really useful)
    • daily driving Linux on a phone is a poor experience - not pine64s fault but there’s a bunch of support missing in Linux that needs to be developed before early adopters can really use Linux phones. Modem power management, audio switching between Bluetooth and speaker, MMS support, camera support, etc.