How many more disasters, mishaps, and otherwise shoddy QA do they have to have before people start demanding something else?
Edit: "Nice". Disagree and suffer the wrath of -1's and ratelimiting.
Do you think we would be discussing this article if it was Dell, HP, or Lenovo? I doubt the larger tech blogs would’ve even picked it up or even cared.
In my practical experience it is higher quality than other hardware.
The machine is nigh unupgradable, being soldered and glued at the seams. If the mainboard is fried (usb3 cables?), the SSD is not recoverable.
There's also other various "failures if you look inside" like this issue. One only needs to do a cursory search. One recent major issue is that a speck of dust destroys keys on their keyboards.
Another issue pertaining to the laptop is that they are forcing with each update the APP-ification with continual hurdles to make it harder to install nonstore software.
Now sure, if you want to build for iOS, you need something running OSX. And the only corporate solution is an apple. I get that dependency well, stinks. But I don't make bones that their superficial beauty is only skin deep.
The keyboard on my Dell laptop is garbage but that's the way they always are so nobody bats an eyelid about it.