Do cheaper slower laptops have fewer hardware failure problems in the first few years?

[froggyboy604]

I only used one more expensive HP laptop with a AMD 64bit 2GHz CPU laptop which I got for free from a family member. After a few years of use it broke because of broken RAM.

But, my cheap $200 Windows HP laptop, Acer Chromebook, and Samsung Chromebook had no hardware problems after many years of use.

Cheap laptops also don't come with as many extra hardware parts like a disc drive, more advance cooling system, more ram modules, multiple storage drives, more ports like HDMI, VGA, USB-C, S-Video, Ethernet, Firewire and other parts which may break after a few years.

People also don't usually use cheap slow laptops for gaming, and using video editors which can cause a laptop's fans, CPU, and other parts to wear out faster because gaming will make a laptop work harder than web browsing and office work.

I don't hear a lot of stories of users having their cheap laptops overheating, or the RAM going bad. I just mainly hear stories of slow performance when gaming and doing intensive work, and not enough storage space as the main problems with cheap laptops.

I think people are also more careful when using cheap laptops because the laptop screen's hinges on the screen door and the rest of the case is made of plastic, so people handle them more carefully so they last longer.

 

[Demon_Skeith]

pretty much, since they don't have anything high tech to overhead and just kick out.

 

[froggyboy604]

pretty much, since they don't have anything high tech to overhead and just kick out.

This is true. Most cheap laptops have fewer features which are not high tech when compared to an Intel Core i5 and i7 found in more expensive laptops. The performance on cheap laptop is sometimes not fast enough to play 720P video without the video running slowly with laggy audio.

Cheap laptop CPU like the Intel Atom and Celeron, and the onboard video chip have slower performance than many modern smartphones and tablets because the maker of the cheap laptop use very cheap and slow parts to keep the price at $200 or less.

I seen a few very cheap laptops which are not much faster than a handheld game console like a PSP, DS, 3DS, and older simpler tech like a Playstation 1, portable MP3 and video player which rarely overheats.

A newer handheld like a PSP Vita, and 2DS XL may run 3D games faster than a cheap laptop.

 

[テクニカル諏訪子]

The biggest factor to whether software or hardware break is the end user.
Though I did notice how more expensive brand laptops tend to last much longer than cheaper brands.
I can almost proudly say my first Apple computer (iMac) has only 1.5 years until it becomes a decade old, and it still runs like a brand new PC.
Same holds true with my first MacBook Pro, Mac Mini, Surface Pro (with touch drivers disabled), and Surface Pro 3.

Had laptops from Dell, Acer, HP, Fujitsu Siemens, and such in the past, but none ever lasted longer than 2 years.
The last Dell laptop I had was a 17" laptop (always had way smaller laptops, so it always felt heavy and huge to me) and as solid as a pudding (seriously, ever since I unboxed it, I was questioning whether the manufacturers even assembled the laptop correctly or not), the other laptops are from too far in the past for me to remember what was wrong with those.

 

[froggyboy604]

Apple laptops and PCs do tend to last a long time from seeing so many people use old Apple laptops which were made many years ago, and some articles saying Apple laptops last a long time, and is more reliable than other brands.

But, some other laptop brands like HP, Compaq, Dell, Acer, etc seem to have more disappointed users according to users I talked to, and online reviews.