Every laptop I’ve ever owned has been at the 500USD or less price point, and every laptop I’ve ever owned has had some kind of catastrophic structural failure in the chassis that causes the entire thing to gradually disintegrate after about two years, like clockwork.
Like, that must absolutely be something they do as an explicit design goal that forces you to buy a new disposable laptop just after the standard warranty expires, right? It’s not just me being bad at computer or something?
I see this happen with a lot of laptops, for sure. And not to shill or anything, but in my personal experience Asus and Lenovo laptops have avoided that kind of disintegration (with daily use for years). Whereas the Dell and HP laptops I’ve had have quickly structurally failed like you describe, snapped hinges, detached frames, etc.
Could just be luck, could be the fact that I tend to buy used, could be they give 10% more thought to durability? Dunno.