[Blasterlord2]

Used for 4 years. What's your view?

[sgbuffett]

Depend on what type.of laptop and how.much brand new replacement.

Nowadays can get good laptop fo.$350.
With 350 you can also get a good 2nd hand laptop

[Instinct]

Not worth. Something else will spoil after that.

[limpeh394]

what do u use your laptop for? need it for mobility to bring around for work? or a cheaper more powerful desktop is better alternative ?

[sgh]

If laptop is needed for work to earn monies then I suggest to get new one. If laptop is used as leisure entertainment not to earn monies then repair it IMHO.

[Blasterlord2]

what do u use your laptop for? need it for mobility to bring around for work? or a cheaper more powerful desktop is better alternative ?

Will need a laptop as I need to use it outside. I'll need a relatively good one and if I don't repair, will very likely buy one that is at least $2k.

[Blasterlord2]

Depend on what type.of laptop and how.much brand new replacement.

Nowadays can get good laptop fo.$350.
With 350 you can also get a good 2nd hand laptop

Won't buy a 2nd hand one as I dunno how much the previous owner has abused it.

[sgh]

Will need a laptop as I need to use it outside. I'll need a relatively good one and if I don't repair, will very likely buy one that is at least $2k.

You use laptop to do what kind of work need at least 2K? I recently get one for my dotter (co-shared with me as I sometimes want to use) is about 1.8K. The graphics card is the killer as she claim need do 3D modeling which is BS becuz I catch her a few times play some game instead!!!

[ysh02]

Repair lah...can use better use it fully this year recession coming many jobs will be lost...

[Blasterlord2]

You use laptop to do what kind of work need at least 2K? I recently get one for my dotter (co-shared with me as I sometimes want to use) is about 1.8K. The graphics card is the killer as she claim need do 3D modeling which is BS becuz I catch her a few times play some game instead!!!

RAM needs to be at least 16G (32G if possible). Also need SSD and 2TB of HDD space. A big screen is a must as I can't see very well nowadays.

[Blasterlord2]

Repair lah...can use better use it fully this year recession coming many jobs will be lost...

Yah, that's my consideration too. Recession coming and I've been spending a lot in the last few years. I'm thinking if the repair can help the laptop last another two years then it'd be worth it. 

What's the typical lifespan of a laptop? Usually I changed mine every three years but this time round I want to consider saving money.

[SotongOngTee]

How to protect sensitive contents from repairman?

[starbugs]

I would suggest getting a new one instead. Expecting to use a four year old laptop for another two years after repair is quite a stretch. Other parts will start to break down soon. A new decent laptop is just about 1k+, unless you are paying the Apple tax

[keys]

get a new one ..when one part fail, the rest will follow , no point

[[[ForeverAlone]]]

I got one spare iMac left one corner, used to repair it change the power supply cost 300++

used for few months , HDD seem corrupted never go fix. I nearly wanna throw away donate out maybe next time will when the donation drive again come my area.

[Talent]

no dont
unless is main laptop brand co

I paid 120 still breakdown after few months

[Talent]

How to protect sensitive contents from repairman?

yes I suspect he copy and took my parts

[Napoleon Porlumpar]

Nowadays can get good laptop fo.$350.

bro..............350 bucks.................not 3500 bucks leh..............

[singlon]

If u have a img system of your present laptop u can do a similar or better laptop of the same brand
and do a cloning into the new 2nd second hand working laptop available at Blangala simlim mall.
for singlon it is easy as i have the image disk in my ubuntu under disk management
due to alot of monkey tricks deployed i will take longer to arr at pfsense my own router
meaning i can control my provider of what they know abt me using a old computer switches etc.
It is no longer easy to write to a cdrom for iso file. I need to boot up my own router

[singlon]

remember wat singlion tolld u abt Murder weapon.
it has become easy on LTE means u on fake 5G beri safe
Lucifer aka satan is a frequency tuning angel at
5.X ghz license exempt band
U also find piano pipes at catholic church.
singlon was a friend of the late Bro principal of st Patrick school.

Behold Lucifer is an angle of light of freq. and music.

[grotesqueness]

Used for 4 years. What's your view?

elite laptop worth repairing they can last more than 12 years

like mine i7-4xxx 15 years still running 


non elite one throw away

[RiseofAsia]

How to protect sensitive contents from repairman?

Remove the SSD/HD before repairing if you know it is not storage issue if your laptop warranty has expired

[RiseofAsia]

If laptop warranty expires and you have an expensive laptop. Always remember to take CPU and graphic chip pictures. These are the components that can sell for a good price.
Scare the repair man swap your cpu and graphic chip and claim that these 2 components have damaged.

If you have a built in laptop battery. Always disconnect the battery connector first before removing any item from the laptop.

[singaporean1964]

wat is wrong with your laptop?

if its software problem
u can slowly read up/watch youtube how to videos...to restore it

if hardware problem...like lcd screen spoilt
then cannot
maybe get a external monitor to view the screen (thats wat I do...

last week
i went to woodlands sungei rd
the seller sell me a dell Amd A8 3500 for 35$
it was win7 and unable to boot

so i install win10
now its working all right

[RiseofAsia]

Used for 4 years. What's your view?

What is your laptop Spec and have any independent graphic chip not onboard graphic chip?
CPU I5-92xx , I7-92xx - Dont waste $$$

If have independent graphic chip like Ndivia 1060 etc then worth the repair.

[RiseofAsia]

Check your cpu and graphic chip performance benchmark with the current ones.

[RiseofAsia]

https://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php

[RiseofAsia]

https://www.videocardbenchmark.net/directCompute.html