On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 2:41 PM, William Attwood <[email protected]> wrote: > Honestly, with the Mean Time to Failure (MTF) of these devices, if you > purchase it and expect everything to work fine for years, you're dreaming. > Based on the age of the device, the MTF is coming up or passed on multiple > items. It's a used laptop, it's cheap, and can be used and fixed as needed. > > > No need to jump on warranty stuff, by the age, the thing will fail for other > reasons than over-heating... Just know the drive is at the MTF, the memory > might be near MTF, the DVD-ROM might be near MTF, etc. etc.. Cheap > replacements, though.
Yes, hard drives and optical drives are cheap and easy to replace, but video chips are not. So, expecting to replace a hard drive or optical drive in a used laptop is one thing, but the motherboard is quite another. Knowing that the video chip is already known defective, and more likely to fail than in a model where it is not defective, could be a valuable data point to decision making in such a purchase. That's my only point. /* PLUG: http://plug.org, #utah on irc.freenode.net Unsubscribe: http://plug.org/mailman/options/plug Don't fear the penguin. */
