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Flickergate

Fri Feb 02, 2018 10:05 am

"We are 1800+ customers who lost $2.8 Millions+ due to faulty/defective Microsoft Surface Pro devices.
Microsoft's Support team is disregarding our issue"

https://flickergate.com/

https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/sur ... d1d?auth=1
 
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Re: Flickergate

Fri Feb 02, 2018 10:18 am

https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Microso ... down/92915

ifixit gave them the worst score they can give a few months back and Microsoft tried to refute it, but alas the score seems to stand.
 
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Re: Flickergate

Fri Feb 02, 2018 10:23 am

toki wrote:
https://www.ifixit.com/Teardown/Microsoft+Surface+Laptop+Teardown/92915

ifixit gave them the worst score they can give a few months back and Microsoft tried to refute it, but alas the score seems to stand.

iFixit wrote:
The Surface Laptop is not a laptop. It’s a glue-filled monstrosity. There is nothing about it that is upgradable or long-lasting, and it literally can’t be opened without destroying it. (Show us the procedure, Microsoft, we’d love to be wrong.)
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Re: Flickergate

Fri Feb 02, 2018 10:51 am

So TL;DR I should be glad I decided to get an XPS13 a couple of years ago instead of a Surface?
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Re: Flickergate

Fri Feb 02, 2018 12:15 pm

K-L-Waster wrote:
So TL;DR I should be glad I decided to get an XPS13 a couple of years ago instead of a Surface?

It's the Surface Laptop, not a Surface (Pro)...
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Re: Flickergate

Fri Feb 02, 2018 12:25 pm

DancinJack wrote:
K-L-Waster wrote:
So TL;DR I should be glad I decided to get an XPS13 a couple of years ago instead of a Surface?

It's the Surface Laptop, not a Surface (Pro)...

They didn't like the Pro either:
iFixit wrote:
All told, it’s nearly identical to its predecessor—aside from ditching the last remaining upgradable component, the modular SSD. Yeah, Microsoft impressed us—by being way worse than we expected.
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Re: Flickergate

Fri Feb 02, 2018 12:28 pm

The Surface Laptop teardown has links to different Surface Pro models, including Surface Pro 4. They're barely better.

edit: whoops, got ninja'd
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Re: Flickergate

Fri Feb 02, 2018 12:56 pm

just brew it! wrote:
DancinJack wrote:
K-L-Waster wrote:
So TL;DR I should be glad I decided to get an XPS13 a couple of years ago instead of a Surface?

It's the Surface Laptop, not a Surface (Pro)...

They didn't like the Pro either:

Right, what I was trying to get across was that the Surface Laptop wasn't released two years ago.
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Re: Flickergate

Fri Feb 02, 2018 1:05 pm

It's refreshing to see a hardware failure that has at least a 47% probability of not being our fault.
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