Laptop Hardware Failures
Users discuss reliability issues with premium laptops like Dell XPS and Lenovo ThinkPads, including battery swelling, touchpad problems, motherboard failures, sleep malfunctions, and poor support, often under Linux.
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Thanks for the feedback. I've had problems with this in HP and Levovo laptops before.
Unfortunately same about my XPS, looked promising but turned to shit faster than I'd expect
Similar experience with dell xps except touchpad froze intermittently. Had 2 engineer visits and two motherboards and no fix. Hilarious to think they want to throw hands with apple.
I thought my new xps 13 was good. Guess not
Is the 13in model suffering the same issues? How about under Linux? Would love a solid machine to replace the Apple MBP but I'm very skeptical.
My last 2 laptops: T440s and an XPS 13 (9310) have both not had this issue, and that accounts for about the last 6 years of linux laptop usage for me. Several crummy laptops (the 300-700 dollar range at best buy) prior to that have had it, though.
I have always had issues with this on my Lenovo X1 series laptops. Why is that?
I had an xps. The battery swells and the charger stopped working, then the replacement charger stopped working. The keyboard and trackpad werent great either
yeah Lenovo support is shit. It's why I just buy two of them most of the time :)
I got a 1200€ XPS 13 Developer Edition (with Linux) a few years ago. Sleep did not work well from the start and it would randomly drain battery while sleeping. About 9 months in, the battery swelled up and outright died, and was replaced under warranty with a week+ wait. 9 months after that, so just after the 1.5yrs warranty expired, the motherboard died. 500€ to replace. Got a ThinkPad X1 Carbon for about the same price instead and never looked back - will not buy Dell again.