I was visiting family in Italy and my aunt asked me if I can fix up some laptop they had bought a few months ago. What I saw stunned me.
The motherfucking thing had 32GB OF MEMORY on a mini SSD. The guys at the PC shop charged extra to set up the PC and they installed W10 with a fuckton of random ass firmware that booted with the computer. The funniest thing is that the laptop was put together before Windows 10 memory requirement increase or before even Windows 10 got released so it literally did not have enough memory to handle the OS, the poor thing was stuck in a cycle of trying to update and being unable to all the while chugging like a motherfucker from all the shit installed on it. Literally unusable for almost anything.
It looked kinda like pic related, cheap laptop with the standard "sleek" white look. Its specs were ok aside from the memory which is where clearly where they cut costs from.
But the most fucked up thing is that this all happened long after W10 bumped up the memory requirement so these guys were essentially selling computers with no memory to run the OS they were installing on them.
It wasn't some shady back-alley IT shop either, this was a big IT retailer.
What the fuck is going on in Italy that shit like this is legal?
How is this legal?
this isn't reddit and your bullshit story is typical iMolester cancer. go back to your designated shitting street and stay there, iMolester.
A few years ago some Austrian guy had a dream about dealing with shit like this once and for all.
Unfortunately, he fucked up.
The End.
and then everyone clapped and gave you reddit gold?
But why though?
You want Italy to make SSDs illegal?
No but shouldn't selling computers with 0 working memory be?
negro
>I was visiting family in Italy
stopped reading there
I don't believe in laws that attempt to keep people from making stupid decisions.
why
A few years ago these low-end craptops with 32GB SSDs, usually paired with Atom or Celeron CPUs and 2GB or 4GB of ram, were very common in my third world shithole as well. I've never actually seen one in the wild, at their price point they just weren't worth buying since they were only slightly cheaper than laptops with a large HDD or a 128+ GB SSD.
i had a cheap windows 10 tablet and a windows update crashed it becouse there was no space left on ssd. throwing it in the bin was all i could do.
How is some grandma gonna know she is being sold a phone and not some kid's toy if companies can no consequence get away with that?
Laws are made by the moneymakers, welcome to capitalism.
laws are literally that most of the time. It makes sense to protect consumers from people trying to steal from them. Device you buy should atleast be able to operate this laptop might aswell be broken device lul.
Who gives a fuck, give grandma an iPad and be done with it
>be a retard
>buy a device for retards
>WTF GOVERNMENT PLS HALP ;w;
do commies really
Cope, MacBook does not have this problem.
I'll be that guy and I'll just say that low end devices don't use SSD. The laptop was probably using eMMC, a cheaper and much slower kind of storage.
>32GB OF MEMORY on a mini SSD
Top kek, that drive must be not from the last decade, but the decade before.