My PS2 survived 25 years. My Legion Ethernet port couldn’t survive a warranty period.
I was setting up an SMB/Samba server for OPL and trying to directly connect my PS2 to my laptop through Ethernet, but nothing worked. Windows wouldn’t even detect an Ethernet connection, so I genuinely started believing my PS2 LAN port had finally died.
For one last sanity check, I plugged the laptop into my router instead… and it still didn’t detect anything. That’s when I realized the problem wasn’t the PS2 at all it was my Legion 5 Pro’s Ethernet port dying 💀
I literally have to wiggle the cable around just to get a connection, and even then it barely works.
Honestly, this laptop has already convinced me it was never really built for gaming:
- terrible thermals
- fans started dying within 2 years(GPU fan died)
- constant overheating
- requires constant cleaning and maintenance just to behave normally
At some point I just gave up gaming on it entirely(due to many reasons, modern games being so boring, terrible optimization etc) and started using it mostly for productive/work stuff because the CPU is still decent. I genuinely don’t have the time or energy to babysit a laptop by opening it up and cleaning it every month.
Meanwhile, my PS2 and PS3 hardware are still out here surviving after decades.
Long live PS2.