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The problem is most people are not experts on laptop design trade offs and only find out about these malicious practices years after purchase at which point they cannot vote with their wallet.

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Which is exactly why we have industry standards elsewhere. Particularly in house building for example.

I've seen enough inspections to know building standards don't mean much.

It's sadly true but also without such standards it'd be even worse, and, you'd have nothing to fall back on to try to force them to fix it.

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