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| Thread ID: 67661 | 2006-04-02 22:53:00 | Laptops dying everywhere... | personthingy (1670) | PC World Chat |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 443227 | 2006-04-03 06:29:00 | Ahh, buy crap expect crap!Very true. If something is cheap, then there is more of a risk it will break quicker... | maccrazy (6741) | ||
| 443228 | 2006-04-03 06:41:00 | It isn't a matter of "cheap crap" . If you drive a BMW and a Lada at 90 mph into a brick wall, they'll both be wrecked . . . . I just don't see the point of a portable device that's not able to take the inevitable abuse that a portable device will get . Nothing can stand abuse . A laptop is like all other expensive toys . If you drop your iPod onto a concrete floor enough times, bits will start to fall off it . It might work for a while, but it's not designed to be dropped . Laptops are portable . But you have to treat them with care . The tough ones cost a lot more . But there's a limit to what they will stand, too . Some have acceleration sensors so the drive heads can be parked when the comuter is dropped while working . But that doesn't protect it from being thrown into the back of a truck . Your rack mounted transportable computer will stand less hard handling than your speaker boxes . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 443229 | 2006-04-03 06:59:00 | Make sure to get a three year warranty (at least). Everytime I see someone buying a mac without Applecare (extends warranty from 1 year to 3 years) I just laugh. The Laptop Company gets a regular workout of their repair under warranty plans, where I work. You have to buy a 2.5 inch to 3.5 inch hard drive adapter to retrieve data as required. Dell also have a "no questions asked" corporate-type warranty for people who travel alot. Some people have iBooks that are still going - usually the batteries have long since stopped charging properly though.. |
gibler (49) | ||
| 443230 | 2006-04-03 07:02:00 | .....that doesn't protect it from being thrown into the back of a truck. What killed the laptop was a repair i attempted after the power socket got progressively less reliable. The sound outlet was also getting doggy fast, one had to wedge the plug on the right angle. Taking it apart and putting it together twice was enough to cause the CD drive to get intermittant. There were other factors, but its a long and boring story It was certainly never thrown, or anything like that. None of my gear gets thrown, apart from vocal microphones, and thats not by me or any crew. Your rack mounted transportable computer will stand less hard handling than your speaker boxes.True, the speakers get kicked into a solid block at the front of the truck, but the rack mounted toys, EQs and the likes, are carefully loaded in a space near the back. Everything in those racks is a little delicate, but nowhere near as delicate as the eletegroup laptop. It seems that theres a few people out there finding out that a laptop is not tough enough for intended use. |
personthingy (1670) | ||
| 443231 | 2006-04-03 07:05:00 | They don't want users doing their own repairs. :D I open laptops with great care (and reluctance). I don't do eye surgery at all. | Graham L (2) | ||
| 443232 | 2006-04-03 07:07:00 | I've never had a flaptop but the most conspicuous weak point I always thought was the connections, the ports, sockets. They're no more robust than a PC AFAI can tell and yet meant to plugged into and unplugged all the time. Do people's connections go, bent pins all that like the case above, wedging it in at an angle so it'll work. I bet there's a lot of that. | mark c (247) | ||
| 443233 | 2006-04-04 04:53:00 | All those connecteors have a "number of insertions" specified by their manufacturers . It's not very high . :) For the "RJ" telephone types (for modems, and Ethernet) the number is in the hundreds . The 3 . 5 mm jacks for audio would probably be less . In the early PC days, you could buy male-female "adapters" for the serial ports . The idea was you would screw the adapter in "permanently" to proitect the connectopr on the motherboard . For laptops, this was one of the reasons for using a doclking station . |
Graham L (2) | ||
| 443234 | 2006-04-04 05:35:00 | yes, i do believe that the warehouse laptop was a dell . . . . the DSE one, was an eletegroup laptop . Elitegroup . Both total crap . Buy an ASUS next time . |
pctek (84) | ||
| 443235 | 2006-04-04 05:36:00 | I know that extended warranty wasn't one of personthingy's initial concerns. However, I do recommend it with electronic items bigger than a toaster. Couple of years ago I had a Samsung 29" tv throw a series of wobblies outside the one year mark. The retailer's nominated repair shops failed to fix it. Somehow the thing got "lost" between retailer and importer on one of its journeys. It had a three year extended warranty and Noel Leeming in Nelson just pointed to a row of similar machines in the shop and I selected a 29" Sony to replace it. | Scouse (83) | ||
| 443236 | 2006-04-04 05:39:00 | ... as long as the company offering the extended guarantee will still be in business. ;) | Graham L (2) | ||
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