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| rsjsouza:
Once I got an incredible offer on a Hewlett Packard DV6000 that was part of their business line but it was rigged with issues. To make things worse, this was a laptop that was given to my then father-in-law that lives abroad - the damn thing died within the first year or use and we had to haul it to US to fix it. It didn't help this laptop died again about two years after this episode. At that time I had bought my wife a Toshiba laptop that, unbeknownst to us, it would last us 10 years. She is in her second Toshiba laptop. |
| VK5RC:
With a family of 3 children in the teens, I have had 2 HP, 2Toshiba 1 Mac laptops, MacAir and iPad, all still going (allowing for age and software bloat) What are you guys doing to your equipment? (Actually we have been lucky) Now iPhones, they really fall to bits! I have lost count of screens, backs, power and home buttons! |
| wraper:
--- Quote from: rsjsouza on November 07, 2016, 12:53:03 pm ---Once I got an incredible offer on a Hewlett Packard DV6000 that was part of their business line but it was rigged with issues. --- End quote --- If DV2000 / DV6000 / DV9000 series laptop had dedicated Nvidia 8x00 series GPU and / or chipset, it was born to die. Blame goes for both Nvidia for crappy chips with cracking bumps in BGA and HP for crappy cooling. If it didn't had any Nvidia inside, it was reliable enough. Although they also had batteries dying fast because of crappy cooling, batteries got really hot, and therefore degraded really fast. |
| rsjsouza:
--- Quote from: wraper on November 08, 2016, 09:44:12 am --- --- Quote from: rsjsouza on November 07, 2016, 12:53:03 pm ---Once I got an incredible offer on a Hewlett Packard DV6000 that was part of their business line but it was rigged with issues. --- End quote --- If DV2000 / DV6000 / DV9000 series laptop had dedicated Nvidia 8x00 series GPU and / or chipset, it was born to die. Blame goes for both Nvidia for crappy chips with cracking bumps in BGA and HP for crappy cooling. If it didn't had any Nvidia inside, it was reliable enough. Although they also had batteries dying fast because of crappy cooling, batteries got really hot, and therefore degraded really fast. --- End quote --- Yes, that was the first issue with this HP while the second issue was something unrelated. Despite at that time my company had furnished me with a Dell Latitude D630c with the same Nvidia chipset, requiring the motherboard to be replaced twice under their warranty agreement, it did not take out the bad taste in my mouth with my first experience with HP laptops. In this case, I should have perhaps added to my initial reply this is my opinion: everyone is entitled to one given their walks of life. |
| rrinker:
--- Quote from: VK5RC on November 08, 2016, 09:27:51 am ---With a family of 3 children in the teens, I have had 2 HP, 2Toshiba 1 Mac laptops, MacAir and iPad, all still going (allowing for age and software bloat) What are you guys doing to your equipment? (Actually we have been lucky) Now iPhones, they really fall to bits! I have lost count of screens, backs, power and home buttons! --- End quote --- What are you guys doing to your phones? I still have my first iPhone, a 3G and it still works if charged up. I have the Palm Treo 650 I had before it, too, and as it was working I think it probably still would if I could find the charger. I had my iPhone 4S too, until I gave it to a friend who broke hers - and it less than a month she had the screen all smashed. I used it for 2 years without a scratch - and no case. I've had mu current 5S for a while now, got it just before the 6 came out, and it still works fine. My GF broke THREE Galaxy S3's in a 2 year period - ran over one, went swimming with the second (and she was NOT thrown in the pool), and blames the dog for making her drop the third on the kitchen floor (ceramic tile) and destroying the screen. But I was like that ever since I was a kid. My toys always lasted - until my baby sister got her hands on them. There were some she stayed away from, and indeed after 40+ years of storage I actually found some of my old things while cleaning out the house (I just turned 50). Still in usable condition. |
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