Terrible OEM experiences

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After years of owning and fixing laptops, I want to share my experiences with the various OEMs. Some of these laptops are mine or my friend's

Many people have mixed opinions towards these OEMs but many of mine are just pure bad or even terrible.

 

Let's start off with my first laptop, the Sony Vaio VGN-NW25GF

It was a decent laptop back in the day, with a Core 2 Duo T6600 and a measly 2GB of ram. It ran fine for a year but then it got real laggy. Defragging the hard drive not only did nothing but also made things worse. The hard drive literally died while being defragmented. I sold it in 2013.

 

Next comes Acer with their Aspire 1825PTZ.

This was probably the worst laptop I have ever owned. The underpowered Pentium SU4100 and 320GB hard drive made owning it...cancerous. On the upside, battery life was excellent but I have never brought it out to this day (I bought it in 2010) cuz it was rather embarrassing to be using such a crappy laptop. The bad experience didn't stop there, 6 months later, the touchscreen started glitching and would move my cursor to the top right of the screen. The touchpad died right after that, and so did the battery and wifi adapter. Today, it's sitting in my storeroom, rotting away,

 

Moving on to Dell, we have the Inspiron 11 3147.

 

It was a really nice 2 in 1 I bought in early 2015. But all hell broke loose when I updated to Windows 10 and it got BSODs every now and then. Before that, the audio had crackling noise and plugging in headphones would cause it to switch between mono and stereo audio. While upgrading to an SSD the SATA connector cracked. Yay. Sold it earlier this year.

 

Now let's take a look at HP. Keep in mind that this isn't my laptop but my friend's. It is the HP Notebook 14 with an i5-7200u. Performance was decent and it had Radeon Graphics. The main problem was its build quality. It fell off the table and cracked all the way down the keyboard deck and broke the hinge. The hard drive also died a month after the fall.

 

Finally, we have Asus. Me and my friend both own vivobooks. With mine being the K401UQK and his being the X556UB. The X556UB was the most problematic one. It refused to boot up and was diagnosed for having a motherboard issue by Asus themselves when it worked after swapping ou the hard drive. It also would shut off every now and then due to overheating. For mine, the battery was dying after months and lasted 2 hours on a single charge. The CPU package went up to 80 deg Celsius opening chrome. The headphone jack is screwed up and now the LCD has the imprints of the keyboard. But luckily, everything was covered under the 2 year warranty, except the battery which only had a year of warranty (WTF) and costed $130 for diagnostics and replacement. 

 

Honorable mentions:

 

The Lenovo G50, i5 4200u or something. Owned by a friend.

Hinge broke along with a bunch of other ports.

Early 2011 Macbook Pro. i5-2415m. One of my spare laptops.

Kept freezing and hangs on bootup half the time

 

I'm thinking of getting a new laptop next year when this K401UQK tht I'm typing with turns 2 years old. Looking for a reliable and cheap one as I already have a gaming desktop. Any suggestions? The ones with Ryzen APUs seem rather attractive.