A while ago I ranted about my laptop at work which was unable to install a Windows update. After several attempts I have the laptop to our IT department, but they also weren’t be able to install these update. So it seems that I order a new laptop this year.

You don't need to buy a new laptop, you just gotta manually install all the updates in chronological order.

For some stupid reason, windows update tries to install the updates from the most recent to the oldest, so when you don't update it for a few major releases it gets stuck (because the older updates are prerequisite for the newer ones, but since it starts from the newest, it fails - clever, right?).

Besides, you don't solve (non-legacy) software issues by buying new hardware. You fix the software. Or reinstall it from scratch, at worst.

@endor It may be cheaper to just buy a new one, depending on the salary of the guy who has to pour time into fixing the mess.

That goes twice for an engineer who is supposed to do something that brings profit to the company.

@Fast-Nop @endor or just wipe and re-install

@JoshBent way to easy for this problem, like seriously who has time to spend a few hours installing windows from a easily findable ISO from Microsoft, letting it update to the latest patches and reinstalling everything that was already there.....

I mean seriously, why do that when you can waste a week or two not doing any work waiting on new hardware, which will have to be setup anyway.... and then fail again because someone decided to not let windows update when it should.

What are those updates which are so critical to your daily work? Can you proceed without those? Can you reinstall and save a lot of pain and frustration? Or can you switch to a Linux Distro of your choice?

I don't see how a new hardware is a better option

It is the Windows 1903 Update. And no, I don‘t "need" it, but I want it. And no, this problem has nothing to do with the order of installing.
And reinstalling Windows would be a solution, but it would be very annoying and nevertheless I‘m entitled to a new laptop this year 😄