Dustin_m
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My dell laptop went out this week, and i have been waiting for dell to get back to me with a price on replacing the motherboard. I also have been checking out new systems in case it was too expensive.
I just got off the phone with them, and they said it would be $500 to do everything, which includes shipping, diagnostics, labor, replacing "minor" parts, replacing the board, and shipping back to me. I told them that was too much and that i could buy a better one for a little more, so they dropped it to $350. I think i might be able to push for anohter 50 bucks off. also it only carries a 3 month warranty on the replaced parts.
OR, would it be a smarter decision to suck it up and get something a little more up to date, like this Acer Aspire 5610 15.4" Widescreen Laptop PC w/ Pentium Dual-Core Processor T2080 - Wal-Mart
my old laptop was a dell inspiron 600, pentium 1.6 ghz i think, 1 gb ram, 100gb hard drive
I just got off the phone with them, and they said it would be $500 to do everything, which includes shipping, diagnostics, labor, replacing "minor" parts, replacing the board, and shipping back to me. I told them that was too much and that i could buy a better one for a little more, so they dropped it to $350. I think i might be able to push for anohter 50 bucks off. also it only carries a 3 month warranty on the replaced parts.
OR, would it be a smarter decision to suck it up and get something a little more up to date, like this Acer Aspire 5610 15.4" Widescreen Laptop PC w/ Pentium Dual-Core Processor T2080 - Wal-Mart
my old laptop was a dell inspiron 600, pentium 1.6 ghz i think, 1 gb ram, 100gb hard drive