Re:Upgrading the soldered-on RAM of a Dell XPS13 7390 laptop
by smt88 on Sunday November 21, 2021 @12:49PM
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> even cars are doing it
Cars are not doing it. Like I said: provide a source that isn't your own suspicions and anecdata.
I am a shareholder of an auto insurance company, and our actuaries would know if cars were doing it. There is a lot of very high-quality data about vehicle reliability, and major trends are very visible.
Car companies are often stupid and/or evil, but they can't (and don't) precisely plan obsolescence. Car usage is a huge bell curve, with the average American driving ~15k miles/year, but large groups of people driving far less or far more. You couldn't possibly plan a car to fail at X years.
Re:Upgrading the soldered-on RAM of a Dell XPS13 7390 laptop
by vortext on Sunday November 21, 2021 @05:06PM
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Car manufacturers usually set the warranty as 36 months/36,000 miles, for example. I'm not claiming that this is the case, but it'd be far easier to plan for X miles than years.
Cars are not doing it. Like I said: provide a source that isn't your own suspicions and anecdata.
I am a shareholder of an auto insurance company, and our actuaries would know if cars were doing it. There is a lot of very high-quality data about vehicle reliability, and major trends are very visible.
Car companies are often stupid and/or evil, but they can't (and don't) precisely plan obsolescence. Car usage is a huge bell curve, with the average American driving ~15k miles/year, but large groups of people driving far less or far more. You couldn't possibly plan a car to fail at X years.