[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by zakthor

You asked a pretty sophisticated question but turns out you didnt care about the answer?

Its pretty dang easy for a laptop vendor to fake most software reported specs. Root kit can do it too.

Check this out: a hard drive that fakes its capacity:

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2022/08/walmart-lists-a-30tb-portable-ssd-for-39-it-is-naturally-a-scam/

You are using a no name chinese sourced external component as an example
and while it’s a legit scam product, they are on Amazon as well, that’s a far stretch from a name brand manufacturer of PC’s.

I don’t see Acer, Dell, Samsung, Lenovo, Apple, MSI etc…. ever doing something like that.

They have nothing to gain and everything to lose.