Why are laptops so poorly designed?

[jdegree]

Laptops are money makers. Cheaper to buy new than to fix old (broken).

[Skyfrog]

It's not just limited to laptops, nearly everything is poorly made these days. When it's all mass produced by underpaid workers in China for the cheapest price possible it's to be expected sadly. We've become a disposable society. Even if something does manage to last a few years it gets thrown away regardless because it is "obsolete". The companies of course want you to buy a new replacement on a regular basis so spending more money to make products that last is not in their best interest.

[Rippleman]

Designed it the most cost effective way possible to mark it up by a few hundred percent.

very little markup in PC's, roughly averaging 5%

[ccuk]

U mad bro? :D

Nope, you sure seem it though.

[Arceles]

Nope, you sure seem it though.

No I just like my laptop a lot :D but your comment translated into my language it's fun.

[123456789A]

My MacBook Pro only got hot when running Windows 7, but since I installed Windows 8 CP it doesn't get hot as much and the fans don't need to kick in. Bizarre. Apart from that it very rarely gets hot. I like the fact it doesn't have any vents on the bottom, i mean, whats the point in those when the laptop is placed on a flat surface? There isn't much room underneath there. My old Dell Inspiron had vents all over it (mainly on the bottom) and got really hot all the time. It was a total heap compared to my MBP.

Hmm, mine was running hotter in OS X. It seems like any photo viewing would cause it to get really hot. It's an early 2011 model, 15 inch. I have all the latest updates installed. When I run Windows 7, it only gets hot when running games. I'm looking forward to trying Windows 8 on it later, but I don't run beta OSs on my primary PCs.

I checked the CPU usage and it doesn't really seem high enough to make it get that hot.

[mmannai]

They don't make them like they used to. Simple.