[OT] My son's fried laptop

[Richmond]

On 17/03/14 17:26, Bob Sneidar wrote:
> I think it really comes down to the quality of the laptop components, as the prior post suggested, and particularly the display. Everything else in the laptop is not that expensive, but the display might be a higher quality. If it is just a stock LCD nothing fancy, then consider another laptop. BTW it is quite odd for a motherboard to “fry” (barring abuse) in a laptop. Power surges are usually handled fairly well by the external power supplies. Laptop power supplies can afford to drop output power because they run on batteries. I would definitely see if others with this same model are having issues. Might be a lemon.
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> Bob
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Luckily I went over to my accountant who dug out the documents from when 
I purchased the laptop and it
turns out to be guaranteed for 2 years; and I bought it 18 months ago.

And, even more to the point, the company I bought it from have agreed to 
honour the guarantee
[this being a rare phenomenon in Bulgaria], and have undertaken to 
repair it and have it up and running within 15 days.

It might be a lemon, but my son did have it sitting on a desk for 7 
hours, with no cooler pad underneath it,
and was working on heavy stuff (Sibelius 7), running Windows 7; so the 
blasted thing overheated and the motherboard became
a great-grandmother rather sooner than planned.

If I can have it running Xubuntu, with a cooling pad, that will do.

"Daddy" has already had to fork out for a replacement, so, at least, he 
deserves his son's cast-offs . . . LOL

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Interestingly enough, "the girlfriend" has a much more expensive laptop, 
also running Windows 7, which went
the same way after a year. Again; silly girl didn't have a cooler pad; 
she, also, unfortunately got some pretty nasty
burns on her legs.

Richmond.