My laptop has been having major issues for awhile now and I’ve probably mentioned that before. It kept on rebooting every few minutes. I bought a fan for it to sit on, thinking overheating was the problem. Didn’t make any difference. I uninstalled almost everything, thinking it was a conflict of some kind. No difference again.
I finally paid a technician to look at the laptop. His recommendation – buy a new one. Apparently, the hard drive was no good anymore and fixing it would cost a couple of hundred dollars. Since it was an old machine, he thought I would be better off investing in a new one – especially since laptops are fairly inexpensive these days.
But I like that old laptop! It has a nice size screen, windows XP, an easy to use touch system, and it’s a pretty blue colour. So I decided to ask my grandson what he thought.
We were visiting my family in the states, so I took the laptop with me. Said grandson runs the family iPod, iPhone, and computer repair business at iRestore.net and is a whiz at fixing things.
The end result: Another hard drive with a much bigger capacity was installed on my laptop for much less than the original quote. You may not have a techy relative that can give you a deal, but it’s always a good idea to get a second opinion before you make another purchase. Now I’ll just keep saving for a netbook someday as well.
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