My experience with recent hardware is that it is very poorly designed, not as "computational hardware", but as a "consumer product".
Buying anything new for me is out of question since a few years ago, because it just cannot be guaranteed to survive half a year, hence now I always buy second-hand, because this way at least it was tested by the previous owner.
But even so, modern hardware is hellishly unreliable.
I bought a Dell 7 series laptop (17 inches), and:
1. Already had to replace the battery back panel three times, just because it is being held by tiny plastic hooks which are easily torn away.
2. It's assembly-reassembly process is a nightmare (which used to not be the case for Dell in the past).
3. Already had to replace the fans (the laptop is not even 5 years old).
but bear with me, the rest is more fun:
4. When running with a smaller battery (official), it CANNOT RUN THE GPU AT FULL SPEED EVEN WHEN PLUGGED INTO THE MAINS. Really? This is just ridiculous. A laptop using the battery when plugged in is just insane.
5. You MUST use a smaller battery to install a 2.5" SATA drive. So you much choose: either a SATA drive, or a GPU.
6. The power on/off button does not work if your BIOS battery has low charge. This is just maddening! What is the connection?
Maybe it's just me and one single laptop?
Well, in my experience, everything is getting similarly fragile.
My phone has its thermal sensor installed ON THE BATTERY, so if you replace the battery, you have to replace the sensor as well, which is, oh, well, a harder thing to manufacture than a battery and on many non-official batteries always returns 0 (0 Kelvin that is, -273 Centigrade).
The amount of cacti you have to swallow to get used to modern hardware is just staggering.
Buying anything new for me is out of question since a few years ago, because it just cannot be guaranteed to survive half a year, hence now I always buy second-hand, because this way at least it was tested by the previous owner.
But even so, modern hardware is hellishly unreliable.
I bought a Dell 7 series laptop (17 inches), and:
but bear with me, the rest is more fun: Maybe it's just me and one single laptop? Well, in my experience, everything is getting similarly fragile. My phone has its thermal sensor installed ON THE BATTERY, so if you replace the battery, you have to replace the sensor as well, which is, oh, well, a harder thing to manufacture than a battery and on many non-official batteries always returns 0 (0 Kelvin that is, -273 Centigrade).The amount of cacti you have to swallow to get used to modern hardware is just staggering.