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[–] [email protected] 16 points 8 hours ago (3 children)

Can they make laptops with hinges that don't break?

[–] [email protected] 1 points 30 minutes ago* (last edited 26 minutes ago)

I've had two Thinkpads ~15 years and neither had hinges break. The first died due to water damage (the water protection can only do so much), and the second has been with me for almost 7 years now. Both were carried around in backpacks, dropped a few times (current one has a chip from falling off the counter onto a hard floor too many times), and the current one has been abused by young children (slamming the lid, standing on it, etc).

If you're buying a Lenovo laptop that's not a Thinkpad, I don't know what to tell you, that's on you.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 6 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago) (1 children)

To be fair, Lenovo also made the ThinkPad. You could throw those down a flight of stairs and they wouldn't break

Source: I once dropped a thinkpad down a flight of stairs.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 2 hours ago

Meh I reckon 75% of that was IBM. I also had an ideapad that would survive literally nothing

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 hours ago

They can, my x230's hinges are still good