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<blockquote data-quote="NightShade" data-source="post: 2899270" data-attributes="member: 29706"><p>I generally don't care about the support but the piss poor design is why I don't buy computers. I buy a computer I expect to be able to add more ram or change the CPU at some point and a lot of them just won't support much to begin with, they are either physically crippled or are bios crippled. I have some dell's and HP's and never paid a dime for them. It's generally a little older but I have an HP laptop that has a decent CPU and 2GB of ram from the factory that had a slow wifi connection figured I would swap it out only to find out that they have hard coded the BIOS so that ONLY certain cards can be used.</p><p></p><p>Anyway as far as that all goes the BEST laptop I have ever bought was an ASUS ROG series. Had 8GB of ram in it to start off with and was able to take it to 16GB, swapped out the 802.11N WiFi for an 802.11AC and while it was a bit of a pain to make the swap it was still able to work. With two drive bays I have an SSD and a HDD installed. The ONLY problem we had with it was the PSU went out and that was likely due to it being dropped and something getting loose and shorting out. It was twenty bucks to get a replacement on Ebay. We bought this at BestBuy new about 5 years ago and with some simple upgrades it's still works great. Not to mention the same specs in a Mac would have been 3K and little to no upgradeability.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="NightShade, post: 2899270, member: 29706"] I generally don't care about the support but the piss poor design is why I don't buy computers. I buy a computer I expect to be able to add more ram or change the CPU at some point and a lot of them just won't support much to begin with, they are either physically crippled or are bios crippled. I have some dell's and HP's and never paid a dime for them. It's generally a little older but I have an HP laptop that has a decent CPU and 2GB of ram from the factory that had a slow wifi connection figured I would swap it out only to find out that they have hard coded the BIOS so that ONLY certain cards can be used. Anyway as far as that all goes the BEST laptop I have ever bought was an ASUS ROG series. Had 8GB of ram in it to start off with and was able to take it to 16GB, swapped out the 802.11N WiFi for an 802.11AC and while it was a bit of a pain to make the swap it was still able to work. With two drive bays I have an SSD and a HDD installed. The ONLY problem we had with it was the PSU went out and that was likely due to it being dropped and something getting loose and shorting out. It was twenty bucks to get a replacement on Ebay. We bought this at BestBuy new about 5 years ago and with some simple upgrades it's still works great. Not to mention the same specs in a Mac would have been 3K and little to no upgradeability. [/QUOTE]
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