A few years ago we bought a Lenovo Yoga 730 for my wife to use for college courses.
Had been in regular use for a while but the last couple of years it was only used a few times a month.
I recently opened it to update Windows and to my surprise the display cracked in the lower right corner. Further investigation showed that the hinge mount had come off the aluminum lid and when trying to open the lid the hinge pushed against the display and cracked it.
Out of warranty I figured I'll open it up myself and see.
I followed this video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDOJ6LheqD4
and after disassembly found this:
That's how they glued the hinge mount to the lid. And that was supposed to last ?
I'd call that planned obsolescence...
Below is how the other side looks, so far the glue still holding:
Looking around on the web I found a large amount of people with the same problem. To some this happened while their device was still under warranty. And for some of them Lenovo refused to cover it under warranty claiming they broke it.
So don't buy a Lenovo laptop or notebook.
Or if it's such a great deal don't buy a just-launched model so you can do an internet search to see if that model has similar problems.
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