Best Buy removes 32GB RAM worth $600 to "repair" customer's 64GB gaming laptop

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WTF?! Best Buy allegedly "repaired" a customer's gaming laptop by removing one of its two 32GB memory modules, reducing the system's installed RAM from 64GB to 32GB. The customer had sent the laptop to Best Buy for warranty repairs after it began experiencing random BSODs just eight months after purchase.

Redditor GRINZ_DOCTOR claims to have bought a Lenovo Legion 5 gaming laptop from Best Buy's website last December. The laptop reportedly worked as advertised for a few months before it began crashing during gaming sessions.

The device is powered by an Intel Core i9-14900HX processor and an Nvidia RTX 5070 GPU. It features a 15.1-inch WXGA display, 64GB of DDR5 RAM in a 2x32GB configuration, a 2TB SSD, and a 1TB dock station. On the software side, it runs Windows 11 Pro out...

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