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To: goldworldnet who wrote (89406)	6/23/2015 6:57:53 PM
From: maceng2	1 Recommendation Recommended By goldworldnet Respond to of 110653

I agree. and that's why I don't normally use laptops. I use a desktop for most of my stuff, and for mobile I use an android device or my phone. I have some old laptops etc and have run them up with Linux Mint which is very kool in its fully encrypted mode. I just put 8GB of ebay chinese imported RAM in my AMD desktop for under $30. Way less then half the price I get from official sources. Took all of five minutes to install it. Its been working for about a week now. My machine is back to triple boot now, with the evaluation copy Win 10 on top of Win 7 and XP. It seems to be OK too. The 8GB of RAM handles all of the virtual stuff I do at the moment.

To: goldworldnet who wrote (89406)	6/23/2015 7:03:23 PM
From: Reseller Mike	1 Recommendation Recommended By goldworldnet Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 110653

I've worked on quite a few - displays, display backlights, motherboard replacement, cpu fans, power regulators, etc. All the peripheral stuff (keyboards, modems, WiFi boards, drives) is easy it's the odd ball stuff that's real tight and a challenge. Did a cpu fan about 4 months ago. $10 part and it took about 3 hours start to finish.

To: goldworldnet who wrote (89406)	6/23/2015 8:01:02 PM
From: SI Ron (Crazy Music Man)	1 Recommendation Recommended By goldworldnet Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 110653

I had the motherboard changed under warranty and I asked the tech how much it would cost me if I paid for it, he said about 250 bucks. This is when the computer was only 4 months old. It turned out the motherboard did not need to be replaced after all, an updated video driver a couple months later fixed the problem I was having back then. This time its either the MB or the display. I paid a grand for that notebook, it was the top of the line in that model series.