Rant: I just fixed my 100th busted laptop hinge this year and it's only April

I keep a tally on a whiteboard in my shop, and the number hit triple digits this morning with a 2018 Dell Inspiron. It's wild how many people come in with the exact same plastic mount failure, and I'm starting to think it's a feature, not a bug. What's the one repair you see so often it feels like you're on a factory assembly line?

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lisa_carter319d ago

My old shop teacher insisted laptops were built to last. That Dell hinge count proves he was wrong. It really does feel like a planned failure now.

dylanh819d ago

Tell that teacher to check his own hinges.

jason739d ago

So your teacher said laptops last, but like dylanh81 hinted, did his own stuff ever break?