Last yr I got a used laptop with 1 yr left before retirement. Retired dat was in August 2026 then changed to October 2026 and again changed to January 2027 now. Over the summer their was an influx of interns getting brand new laptops while seasoned employees get the cr-p technology. Has anyone experienced this and why would they keep extending the end of life of a laptop when it’s out of warranty???
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@OP sounds like you got a real crisis going there
Ram expense up so laptops cost alot more than they did a year ago. Plus the bank would rather spend on nonsense stuff like RTO rather than new laptops.
Same situation here--had to have my laptop replaced mid cycle (the keyboard failed) and got a replacement that had about a year left on it. Went from September to December, and just yeasterday I checked again and it's now March 2027. Frustrating, because I want to trade down from a performance laptop to the standard one just to shed a few pounds.
Before, over a decade of WFH, the weight didn't matter as much. NOW lugging around a brick and its power supply three days a week makes the tradeoff worth it. Just wish I could come up with a "business reason" to get the MacBook instead, all of which are now actually cheaper than the WinTel boxes due to all the data center RAM shenanigans. Go figure.
@at Speaking the language of executive s-c-u-m-b-a-g-s I see. Smart! Very smart!
They announced earlier this year that changes were made to the laptop refresh schedule. The cost of RAM has been sky high because of data centers. It could change as a result of the recent NVIDIA/Chinese spy scandal, but I wouldn't expect it to be soon. Plus, the Bank loves to save money, so they probably wouldn't reverse course anyway.
Last year I had a laptop with 20 minutes of battery life that was from 2019. I requested a new one and it got denied. 15s in the microwave got me a new one when it stopped working for some reason.
Trying to nickel and dime their way to prime time. Pathetic
I had a 7 year old laptop when I was there no joke. When it stopped working a tech used old parts to fix it. This company is cheap as it gets