This $500 dollar Toshiba is on its 4th year and runs great. I should probably reformat, but im lazy as fuck.Quote:
Originally Posted by FreedomFighter7
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This $500 dollar Toshiba is on its 4th year and runs great. I should probably reformat, but im lazy as fuck.Quote:
Originally Posted by FreedomFighter7
as long as you dont beat the thing up. from what ive seen with my family, laptops die because people get careless with them. leave them around the house in places they get broken, things get spilled on them, etc....
the only things i can think of that kill a laptop just over time are heat, the power cable port eventually just breaking, the battery wearing down, and the hinges on the screen getting weak.
and of course, not being upgradable.
The biggest factor in laptop life expectancy is overheating. Specifically overheating of the CPU. This can be easily avoided by cleaning out your fans and vents of dust every 3 months. Besides that, a lot of low-end laptops from brand names like Dell or HP were never designed to take on a huge load. For example, my friend had to send in his HP Pavilion dv6 for mobo repair twice because he constantly plays LoL on it for hours on end. This specific laptop has only one intake fan and one small vent. It was not designed for gaming.
My $1500 Sager notebook hasn't had any hardware issues after 2 years of ownership. I clean my fans and take care of my computer, and it can still run most new games on high if not ultra without any noticeable performance drop compared to when I got the laptop new. My friend who has the same model computer and same internals had to send in his computer for heat related repairs and high stress on his battery. He hasn't cleaned his computer out over the entire 2 years of owning it. His idle CPU temperatures were 70 degrees Celsius. My idle CPU temperatures are 45 degrees Celsius.
My other friend's $1700 macbook pro can't even play Skyrim without chugging, all settings on low. Macbooks don't have vents. You void your warranty if you try opening it and cleaning it in any manner. Macbooks were not designed to play games, or 3D model, or anything besides surfing your email/facebook, and running itunes. My friend has also gone through about 3 of Apple's proprietary macbook chargers from over exertion, again from playing LoL.
you know what... ill just stick with my desktop, lol.
Tbh, if I were given the choice again, I wouldn't have spent the $1500 on the laptop. I could have built a desktop AND buy a low-end laptop for the go with that money. The desktop would have better specs than my laptop even if I built it 2 years ago with around $900.
I play CS:S on my laptop, but I only play in short bursts of time. Maybe an hour max before turning it off. This is because that fucker gets hot, and it scares the crap out of me.
Also: this machine runs CS:S great on above average settings, but can barely run Halo CE. LoL!
My laptop was my primary gaming system, it could play everything I wanted and it had a good cooler.... then the screen hinges snapped, the screen collapsed, hard drive broke 5 times, the motherboard died just today and the power unit fell out :saddowns:
When it comes to laptop reliability, you can't generalize them. If you say you have a "laptop" and then go on to say that it fell apart before long, then you're doing it wrong. You need to analyze what material the laptop was made out of along with the brand and price. Careless use of a laptop is the primary means of structural degradation. Laptops require maintenance the same as desktops, but in limited ways, which have already been mentioned. Neglect these measures and any laptop will suffer for it. Perform them and your laptop will last as long as 4-6 years.
Now let's stop this ridiculously off-topic discussion.
It also depends on the Laptop you get, of course, and the environment you put it in.
Coming from the laptop killing king himself... My Macbook Pro that I got about 3 years ago is still alive and kicking, 0 hardware problems at all, and I abuse this thing more than I ever did my other ones. Say what you want about price, but when it comes to good construction and industrial design, Macbook's come out on top.