Toshiba laptops

Hammyman

WelshPaul wrote: »

If i buy a laptop for i don't know say £299 and it get's damaged why spend £100 - £150 on repairs when you can replace it for an extra £100 - £150? (even at those prices your risking second hand parts with minimal warranty, your not even guaranteed a qualified person doing the work!)

You get the latest os, a better spec and a years warranty not to mention other extra's???

Please explain?

For £150 I'd fit a BRAND NEW SCREEN with 12 month warranty and change. And it doesn't take a qualified electronics engineer to undo some plastic clips, 12-16 screws and unplug two connectors. In fact most people are more than capable of swapping a screen out themselves to be honest. Its only a fear of doing it that prevents them.

Anyway, I'll explain - APART FROM THE ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT. Your maths is broken. Yes you can get a new one for £150 more but the cost of the new one is still £299. Yes you'll get some money back punting the one with the duff screen on Ebay but after you've taken the HDD out to secure your data on it, you'll be lucky to get £100 for it so you've actually got to pay £200. You bang on about better spec but are you aware that the low cost laptops have actually GONE BACKWARDS in specification? The Pentium Dual Core chip they put in is not a quicker chip than earlier none Celeron Intel chips. In fact they're actually slower in many cases than the Core Duos fitted to laptops FIVE YEARS AGO. Ever wondered why a bargain basement laptop has a larger hard drive and more RAM than a normal person needs? Its to mask the fact its got a pathetic CPU. Memory and hard drives are dirt cheap. Decent speed processors aren't.

pawlala

Hammyman wrote: »

You bang on about better spec but are you aware that the low cost laptops have actually GONE BACKWARDS in specification? The Pentium Dual Core chip they put in is not a quicker chip than earlier none Celeron Intel chips. In fact they're actually slower in many cases than the Core Duos fitted to laptops FIVE YEARS AGO. Ever wondered why a bargain basement laptop has a larger hard drive and more RAM than a normal person needs? Its to mask the fact its got a pathetic CPU. Memory and hard drives are dirt cheap. Decent speed processors aren't.

What exactly do you want to do with yours, rule the world?