• LichbaneLB@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    If only life were that simple. Whose laptops am I going to buy?

    Dell: Marks up replacement SSD prices by 10x (including the predatory behaviour of embedding QR codes to these in the bios to be shown in error states) Apple: … Lenovo: History of installing literal spyware Microsoft: Bad products

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      1 year ago

      Marks up replacement SSD prices by 10x

      You know you can just pop in a Crucial MX500, right?

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        1 year ago

        And I did. The issue is they put in a QR code for their own $800 500 GB SSD in the bios error message for when your SSD breaks.

        My non-technical friend had no idea it’s an obscene price and may have bought it just to get his laptop working.