point taken, but still laptop repair is never going to be cost effective, athough in your case 300 quid versus 2 grand is a no-brainer, theres no way I'd take a 2 grand laptop to a place that has the motto *"we'll have a go - no promises",* unless it was almost beyond economical repair anyway and as Phil said, virtually in the skip anyway.
Cheap laptop repair is and will always be one of the great contradictions and ideals that never quite come to anything. Its like (changing the subject slightly) when I once bought a clapped out merc c class just for fun, when it started going wrong I thought there must be a cheap way of getting old parts for this old shed, but you can't get cheap mercedes parts for love nor money, for example it had a single wiper blade on the front, and the wiper motor packed up, mercedes main dealer wanted £750 for the part, brand new, and even scrap, they wanted nearly £300 - for a wiper motor? Its almost like you buy into the name, because theres no way a wiper motor can ever be worth £750 brand new or £300 scrap unless it has Mercedes written on it somewhere. Same with labour, althoguh I never looked into whan main dealers charged per hour i bet it was closer to 3 figures than 2 figures You buy a laptop, and you expect it to cost you when it breaks, laptop parts are just so expensive, beause they are laptop parts and for no other reason, same thing with labour I guess. Thats why most "perfectly good" laptops get chucked out each year because of some small problem, they are BER, if you know what you are doing with a soldering iron it almost makes it worth rummaging around in corporate skips to see what junk people are chucking out...(although technically there are laws that require proper disposal of computer equpiment so technically you shouldnt find any...). the only way you could do it "economically" is to offer a removal servive and offer to take a way old laptops for a small fee and then dismantle them all and stockpile the working parts but then if you get some obsure laptop, you might not have any parts for it, I think thats why its always so expensive because each vendor makes their laptops in a different way and no two parts (from different vendors) have the same standard fit like you get in desktops.Ie you couldlnt bodge up a laptop by fitting a DELL DVD writer into a Compaq laptop. You;d have to go back to Compaq to get that part. 2009/6/19 Steve Harker <stevehar...@lavabit.com> > agreed but we are talking about a £2000 laptop that is still up to it > even today. The screen is also a crystal-bright one > > Steve > > ------------------------------ > *From:* peterboro-boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk [mailto: > peterboro-boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk] *On Behalf Of *Richard Forth > *Sent:* 19 June 2009 12:47 > > *To:* Peterborough LUG - No commercial posts > *Subject:* Re: [Peterboro] Laptop repairs locally ? > > OMG! £300.00 - you can get a new laptop for that (not a very good one > tho). > > 2009/6/19 Steve Harker <stevehar...@lavabit.com> > >> I had to get the 17 inch TFT on my laptop done last year. The company I >> used >> was London based £300 total (including collection and delivery back) was >> only without it for 3 days. Not bad over all but compared to repairing a >> PC >> way expensive. >> >> On a separate note Phil I send you that document on the ASUS Router a >> while >> back just wondering if you still have it I seem to of misplaced my copy! >> >> Steve >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: peterboro-boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk >> [mailto:peterboro-boun...@mailman.lug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Phil Thompson >> Sent: 18 June 2009 19:07 >> To: Peterborough LUG - No commercial posts >> Subject: Re: [Peterboro] Laptop repairs locally ? >> >> On 16/06/2009 Richard Forth wrote: >> > I don't even think its legal to use "laptop repair" and "cost >> > effective" in the same sentence >> >> indeed, shame so many people are buying them these days, there'll be tears >> ahead. >> >> As many people get to the stage of throwing them away and replacing them I >> would have thought a cheap "we'll have a go - no promises" repair service >> would do fine - as by that point it's practically in the skip. >> >> >> Phil >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Peterboro mailing list >> Peterboro@mailman.lug.org.uk >> https://mailman.lug.org.uk/mailman/listinfo/peterboro >> >> >> ____________________________________________________________________________ >> ________ >> Save on Moving Supplies. 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