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Lu-Tze*, my (until recently) trusty Toshiba laptop, is having power difficulty, which is to say that there isn't any. There's power at the end of the cord, but no lights turn on when you push the button.
4th Dimension would charge me almost $200 to take it apart. I was planning on building a desktop this year and was looking at about $1000. Spending 20% of that on a possible solution doesn't seem terribly brilliant, financially, so I'm considering building the new comp SOON (I'd have to lend myself money, but I could do it), and then trying to get Lu-Tze up later as a back-up, when I have time/money/inclination. I might be able to borrow Erik's laptop in the interim.
Of course, doing enough research to spec parts and build a machine when one has no home net access is problematic. I'm considering cutting time and confusion down by buying a bare-bones machine and adding my own video-card and supah ram - anyone ever gone the bare-bone route?
*My laptop's namesake is anywhere between 800 and several thousand years old. I wish that the name bestowed the longevity and spryness. Of course, Lu-Tze is fictional, as well, and I'm glad that characteristic was not bestowed on my computer.
4th Dimension would charge me almost $200 to take it apart. I was planning on building a desktop this year and was looking at about $1000. Spending 20% of that on a possible solution doesn't seem terribly brilliant, financially, so I'm considering building the new comp SOON (I'd have to lend myself money, but I could do it), and then trying to get Lu-Tze up later as a back-up, when I have time/money/inclination. I might be able to borrow Erik's laptop in the interim.
Of course, doing enough research to spec parts and build a machine when one has no home net access is problematic. I'm considering cutting time and confusion down by buying a bare-bones machine and adding my own video-card and supah ram - anyone ever gone the bare-bone route?
*My laptop's namesake is anywhere between 800 and several thousand years old. I wish that the name bestowed the longevity and spryness. Of course, Lu-Tze is fictional, as well, and I'm glad that characteristic was not bestowed on my computer.
