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Planned Obsolence

Has anyone suspected that Razer has a planned obsolence policy in action for all of its Laptops. The laptops that I am referring to are those with a three pronged AC/DC power jack which is soldered to the motherboard. These jacks are doomed to failure. With months of movement of the recharger cable, the two thinner prongs break off and charging becomes impossile, converting an expensive laptop into an equally expensive door stop. It takes several months for this to occur, so the break usually happens after your warrenty has expired. Since the  repair is a replacement of the motherboard, it is quite expensive so many people will just buy a new laptop… a financial benefit for Razer. It may be that the newest laptops have an AC/DC jack that connects to a motherboard socket, but that does not help thousand sof customers that have laptops from before 2023. If youu have had this problem please answer this post.Razor should give free motherboard replacements for this issue but probably will n

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