[quote=Ricechex]Thanks everybody! The laptop is now dead. Always good to have 2 computers in the house. Going to order a new laptop right now….BTW, the one that died was an HP, bought 2 years ago for $1200, has been back to the manufacturer 2X for a bad motherboard. Just got in back 6 weeks ago. Won’t be buying one of those again.[/quote]
Laptop these days aren’t built to last. They are designed to break in about 2-3 years, just in time for an upgrade. The notable exceptions are macs, which seem to hold out pretty well, not to mention things don’t depreciate quite as fast.
It’s useful to have a spare pc handy…in my case, I have 8 active: 3 pc desktops, 3 laptops, 1 mini-pc for travel, and 1 newly acquired mac. Yes, I know, I’m probably king of geekdom…and am not counting all the other relics sitting in my garage collecting dust, including an Apple IIe, Mac SE/30, IIx, IIsi, 286, 386, for some of you older folks.And everything still runs. Really, I have a purpose for each one. Really I do…
