On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 3:18 PM, DaZZa <[email protected]> wrote: > On 12 October 2011 14:36, <[email protected]> wrote: > > > But unless you have a really high-end laptop, it's probably cheaper to > > buy a new one. Keep an eye out on > > > http://www.shoppingexpress.com.au/shop/laptop-of-the-day/laptop-of-the-day > > until you see what you like. Yesterday they had 15.6" HP core-i3 > > laptops for under $500, and a repair will cost you at least $300, > > mostly in labour costs. > > I echo what Peter has said here - the price of laptops these days is > so low that repairing anything but a serious, high-end business grade > machine if it's not under warranty just isn't worth the effort. It's > cheaper to buy a new one, and you get a new machine warranty to go > with it.
Since we are talking laptops, does anyone know of a cheap 15" that has a screen resolution of 1440x900 ish, all the cheap 15" models I've seen are 1366x768, which is the same resolution as the cheap 13" models. I have a 5 year old 15" mac with 1440x900, I don't want to downgrade. >From what I've seen, the best value 15" laptop with 1440x900 are macs, and a don't want to support apple by buying anything more from them. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
