I disagree - having just replaced my old P166 laptop's hard drive with a newish 30 Gb, it Just Works.
Most laptop CDROM drives are identical these days... they have a plastic shell around to make them fit the laptop's bay. Of course, real internals are particularly customised, but if you need to replace a motherboard then it is generally shop-work anyway. -----Original Message----- From: Dale Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 28 February 2004 12:26 a.m. To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: dse OS-less laptop Good luck getting bits for ANY laptop once the warrenty has run out .....brand names such as HP / Compaq etc are up there with that to ,sure with some of the *brandname* stuff the parts are available ...but reasonable and price cant be mentioned in the same sentance ....imho if the build quality is good (ie the unit itself is of a solid construction) unlike some of the latest dell etc stuff ...then why not ?.... At the end of the day it isnt the suppliers who are providing the warrenty parts , and the parts outside of warrenty are going to be hard to get regardless (wether physically or being able to afford them ;p ) . Cheers Dale.
