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Guess Im just the unlucky one then, because the relatively cheap monitor ($250) I bought broke after roughly 1 year. One of the capacitors got busted.
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Ravi Bhavnani wrote: I don't recommend buying HP products
I cannot think of a reliable alternative. To my experience, everything else is worse.
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I've never had a problem with Dell and Lenovo hardware. Their machines seem to work well.
/ravi
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jmaida wrote: Laptops are notorious for hard drive and motherboard failures.
I have been using laptops (mainly Dell) in business and at home for approaching 30 years and never experienced or even heard of that happening, to me or any of my work colleagues.
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For me the dell hardware was the most reliable too.
My wife is still using the Dell Laptop I bought from the company in 2015 when I moved on. I started using it in 2012, and besides a tiny temperature problem, it still works like charm.
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agree
diligent hands rule....
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jmaida wrote: Laptops are notorious for hard drive and motherboard failures.
About 250 million laptops in the world per year. So yes some of them will fail for all sorts of reasons.
Following suggests probably 2% which is a lot of laptops. That might be low but it doesn't suggest it is all that high.
https://techgenix.com/laptop-and-pc-failure-rates/[^]
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you did some homework. Thanx
I have only lost 1 laptop to a bad motherboard (heat) of my many laptops over the years, but have had to replace hard drive more than a couple of times. Not so much since they moved to SSD's. Had a number of colleagues who were not so fortunate, but they traveled a lot so impacts were probably the reason. Lenova's seem to be most solid. If laptop sits on one's desk all the time, then probably the same failure rate as desktops.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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There is another site (service) that publishes results for failure rates for different drives by the specific product id. So not for example just by manufacture.
Backblaze Drive Stats for Q2 2022[^]
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got it. thanx for the link.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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For my HP Elitebook is the battery and the performance what is driving me nuts. My laptop is now no laptop, it is a movil desktop as it has to be 100% connected to battery supply.
I switch it on, log in and then go making (and drinking) coffee because it needs around 10-15 minutes to complete all "startup" tasks, where the only one I added is just to open the windows explorer in a concrete folder, the rest are domain policies. Opening an office document in sharepoint needs 3-5 minutes, and so on... it bugs the hell out of me.
Sadly I must stick with it for a while as the next (already ordered) model is not available right now   
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Southmountain wrote: HP
There is your problem ^
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But, does it have fibre internet...
A Fine is a Tax for doing something wrong
A Tax is a Fine for doing something good.
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LOL I doubt it.
maybe cell and/or Sat comm.
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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Fiber internet? I don't think they even have touch-tone service. 
/ravi
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Don't know, but StarLink provides service there.
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cool
"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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If only there is a main route nearby. I would buy the town, appoint myself as Maijor, then hire me as a chief of police and start with writing speed tickets like there is no tomorrow. If you to pass through my town you either drive like the elephanting Miss Dasy or get pulled over. Oh, and the speed limit will be 25 all the way.
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modified 15-May-23 9:06am.
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You can set a minimum limit also - so make that 24.
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"A little time, a little trouble, your better day"
Badfinger
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It is 130 miles from El Paso which has fiber.
And looking it up I see per mile estimate for fiber is 80,000. Maybe right of way is allowed because it is a town? Although with Texas who knows.
So only $10,400,000 to lay fiber. But maybe another $10 million to get permission to lay it.
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