I want to run a laptop brand.
There is simply none normal laptops left on the market for pro users.
There is simply none normal laptops left on the market for pro users.
The prime majority of laptops of the market don't come with original engineering. It's almost always outsourced to no-name Taiwanese engineering shops, which largely copy-paste designs for internals, and mechanical engineering for every brand around.
SB simply doesn't look to me it went through any of such design shops, and the engineering school feels very American (it's "one and done" assembly, they tried very hard to use less fasteners, and subassemblies.)
At the same time they repeated the same mistakes that Taiwanese had 20-15 years ago.
2. Complete lack of modularity, serviceability, and odd assembly order. This means minor changes will need mobo redesign. And defect found after test, or on return equals scrapping the unit.
3. Custom mechanical parts used liberally
4. Too many programmable ICs
5. Extremely wasteful use of case space to work around rigidity issues.
Do you think it's a necessary tradeoff? Are other laptops with custom designs subject to the same internal engineering mistakes?
I know nothing about that - was speaking purely from an end user UX perspective
not sure what you're basing your opinion on. maybe people near you have more issues, I dunno.
Very cost-centric like virtually all OEM space is.
> Very cost-centric like virtually all OEM space is.
I'm not sure what you mean by this to be honest
I recently saw their two screened laptop, build quality was superb, as was the rest of hardware BOM, and original engineering.
For Lenovo, I see the same disease that claimed Dell before The "PRODUCT MANAGEMENT."
They had an excellent XPS line, and then they started to slice stuff off it every new model. Now it's very bog down commodity hardware underneath:
1. Low spec memory
2. Qcomm low-end WiFI/bt which bugs out even in Windows.
3. Low-end SSD
4. Batteries going down from 68Wh to 52Wh in the 13th
5. Panel went from top tier one, to noname low-end ISP with <300nits brightness. Only 4k panel now is above average for the class.
6. Testing, and engineering down the drain: mutual RF interference kills WiFi, BT, PCIe, TB, USB3.
For Lenovo, it's of course not the ThinkPads of old. For P15 line is experiencing the same "fade," like a decision to fit P15s with 3 cell battery.