[rescue] A wee bit off-topic

[Lionel Peterson]

Dell, the brand I'm most familiar with, has consumer and business lines of
computers (desktop and laptop). The business line of desktops and laptops are
considered 'stable' over their life - internal components don't evolve/change.
For example, a Dell Optiplex 755 always has the same chipset, serial
controllers, etc. Consumer hardware may evolve/change over the life of the
specific model.

I imagine other OEMs have similar business/consumer lines.

Lionel

> On Jun 16, 2015, at 9:56 AM, hike <mh1272 at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> From some laptop manufacturers, the same model laptop with an "identical"
> configuration/part-number is not "identical".  That is, even from some
> manufacturers use different parts in the same part number.  The current
> crop of laptops and manufacturers may have cleaned up these types of
> problems.
>
> This can present the type of problems that you described.