Sometimes I wonder what those people are doing to their poor laptops for those hinges to become quite unhinged! 👀

@trinsec ok, so some laptops don't have metal frames, they just use the body as the structure. It's not usually the hinge that breaks but where the screws anchor into a plastic body. I'm looking at you HP pavilion,Toshiba satellite, and Dell Inspiron. On occasion, the hinge will lose lubricant in some laptops and become too stiff and fracture the body at the screen housing.

It's rare, super rare, but on this occasion, I don't think it's the users fault. 😂

@skanman Yeah, it's a metal hinge inside a plastic frame that got loose from each other. Lousy design imo if they get loose that easily. A Dell Latitude in this case.

My Lenovo Legion Y720 is a lot sturdier than this.

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@trinsec Lenovo still reigns in build quality.. I've been using ThinkPads for 18 years. I switched to a Dell XPS 13 2in1 last year though because it's super small and tough and I got into motorcycles during lockdown out of boredom and open roads.

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