Request for a blog: Designed for the dump

[TheKaneB]

Why is my old 8 bit computer from '83 still working as it was new, while my new 3 yrs dual-core laptop have so many problems? (right audio channel gone, display often blinking, touchpad's buttons not working anymore, etc...).

I've found this interesting video on the YouTube

It's cool but I think you (Dave) can do far better! I'd like to see a blog when you describe what to do to design a long-lasting product, and explain why (from an engineer's point of view, of course, talking about materials, components, building processes and so on...) today's consumer product are so shitty.

This video I've found is also too much "polite", she speaks to not-so-nerd people and the number of "you knows" is too low for me :-D

bye :-)

[Mechatrommer]

great idea and concept! but sadly its hardly within our control, esp pro and engineers out there. hobbiest always design to last!

[TheKaneB]

great idea and concept! but sadly its hardly within our control, esp pro and engineers out there. hobbiest always design to last!

Yes, I know, but I just want to know which process do last and which don't, which materials last longer and which are jumping straight to the dump, which components have 40 years of life-span and which explode in 40 days, and so on...

I think some of the causes are cheap capacitors, super thin PCB layers, components with very slim tolerance that burn as hell when you give them 0.5V more than what they were designed for, and so on... BTW I'm just guessing, an Engineer can confirm or refute my hypothesis.