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New Laptop
Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2020 10:00 pm
by JEBar
well, once again, I've had to replace my laptop .... the short of it is, its case had gotten brittle and cracked in three different places .... JB Weld's "Super Weld" proved to work pretty well .... Saturday morning I turned it on and got the "dreaded blue screen" .... took it to the nearest Best Buy .... yes, they could have sent it off and had it fixed but the reality was the case was so brittle that repairing it made no sense .... it was a low end (read that cheap) Lenovo .... it performed well, only real complaint .... that being the built in speaker was next to useless .... I looked at several and ended up buying a Lenovo YOGA C740 .... it is a much higher level, higher duty computer and has an aluminum case, touch screen that can be folded back to turn the laptop into a notebook .... being comfortable with its general layout was a significant factor
Re: New Laptop
Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2020 10:02 pm
by RanchRoper
Welcome back....
Re: New Laptop
Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2020 10:04 pm
by markiver54
Never heard of such a problem, but glad you got it resolved!
Re: New Laptop
Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2020 10:12 pm
by BigAl52
Nice to see you got the new one fired up. Hope they got all your info transferred and the learning curve is short.
Re: New Laptop
Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2020 10:25 pm
by JEBar
markiver54 wrote: ↑Sun Jan 26, 2020 10:04 pm
Never heard of such a problem, but glad you got it resolved!
new to me as well and I asked about it ..... apparently its not uncommon for it to happen to heavily uses laptops .... one theory is over time the heat buildup inside the computer makes some sections of the plastic case brittle
Re: New Laptop
Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2020 10:30 pm
by JEBar
RanchRoper wrote: ↑Sun Jan 26, 2020 10:02 pm
Welcome back....
thanks .... happy to be back ....
Re: New Laptop
Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2020 10:36 pm
by markiver54
I think the mfr should give you some restitution, however, don't know how old the LT was. The wife uses hers quite a bit, but no signs of screen damage. Hey...I guess it is what it is. Glad Ya got it taken care of.
Re: New Laptop
Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2020 11:15 pm
by PT7
Like yours, Jim, my last PC was a low-end Lenovo. I recall how very warm (almost hot) it got on the bottom through regular use. I didn't end up with your issue, but decided to try and get away from Windows 10 & MS software.
I was able to do that and I've been using an Acer Chromebook. I'd forgotten one thing about its construction. There is no heat generated by this unit. I'd have to look up the basis for that "improvement," but it is kind of a cool
thing.
BTW, I'm certain with all your travels your computer(s) are well-used and have hit those same bumps in the road you guys do. Glad you're running again.
Bob
Re: New Laptop
Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2020 11:27 pm
by Mags
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Lenovo laptops are not particularly durable, even the higher end ones. Place I used to work quit using them a short while after IBM sold the product line to Lenovo. My wife's Lenovo finally died last April and I replaced it with a newer model of my HP laptop. A 2019 Flagship HP Pavilion X360 2-in-1, full HD IPS Touchscreen Business Laptop. Like the Lenovo Yoga the HP x360 has the touch screen that can be folded back to make it a tablet.
JEBar wrote: ↑Sun Jan 26, 2020 10:00 pm
well, once again, I've had to replace my laptop .... the short of it is, its case had gotten brittle and cracked in three different places .... JB Weld's "Super Weld" proved to work pretty well .... Saturday morning I turned it on and got the "dreaded blue screen" .... took it to the nearest Best Buy .... yes, they could have sent it off and had it fixed but the reality was the case was so brittle that repairing it made no sense .... it was a low end (read that cheap) Lenovo .... it performed well, only real complaint .... that being the built in speaker was next to useless .... I looked at several and ended up buying a Lenovo YOGA C740 .... it is a much higher level, higher duty computer and has an aluminum case, touch screen that can be folded back to turn the laptop into a notebook .... being comfortable with its general layout was a significant factor
Re: New Laptop
Posted: Sun Jan 26, 2020 11:46 pm
by JEBar
Mags wrote: ↑Sun Jan 26, 2020 11:27 pm
Lenovo laptops are not particularly durable, even the higher end ones. Place I used to work quit using them a short while after IBM sold the product line to Lenovo. My wife's Lenovo finally died last April and I replaced it with a newer model of my HP laptop. A 2019 Flagship HP Pavilion X360 2-in-1, full HD IPS Touchscreen Business Laptop. Like the Lenovo Yoga the HP x360 has the touch screen that can be folded back to make it a tablet.
the fellow who we were told is the head of their computer area showed us the HP like the one you noted .... he said that the Lenovo and HP were built with almost identical specs .... the Lenovo was priced about $30 more than the HP .... he said that they haven't had any problems to speak of with either of them .... we spent a good while going from one to the other and from what I could see, there wasn't much difference between them .... I can already tell that this new one has the best battery of any laptop that I've ever owned