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Every single HP, Acer or Asus laptop from those days I saw in the wild had major issues.

I'm not sure what the cause was. Could have just been users.

Too cheap / uneducated to value extra ram or storage, then as a result of it being crappy and slow they didn't care about it and ended up tossing it around. Them on top of their other issues they would have problems like busted screen hinges, batteries that don't charge. Mouse pads that don't work etc.

Every ThinkPad I saw tended to be solid without any issues.