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Unbelievable bork

SUS’S LATEST hit my desk recently. Apart from its snazzy box, the most striking thing about the Vivobook 13 Slate OLED was a painfully obvious flaw. And that got me pondering how a fundamentally borked product makes it through the planning process and into customers’ hands. You’d think obvious flaws or configuration errors would be filtered out, these days. But that Asus tablet, well, let’s just say it has friends.

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