Comments | crashsite68: Thoughts or opinions?

crashsite68

Thoughts or opinions?

Sep 29, 2008 14:10

My laptop died and I need one NOW for my business.

For the price, this looks pretty damn good. The specs are far better than those I saw at Dell, Costco or Circuit City for the same price or even much more. Dell runs $200 more to get the same processor and that only comes with 2 gb ram and a 160 gb hard drive.

http://www.bestbuy.com/site/ ( Read more... )

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arcsine September 29 2008, 18:15:21 UTC

If you need a really reliable, decent-performing laptop, get a Lenovo T61. They're all I buy for my business and they're incredible. Toshiba has a pretty bad reputation for reliability. Not exactly in that price range but totally worth the money.

crashsite68 September 29 2008, 18:17:18 UTC

thats the problem... price. I don't really have $600 to blow on a laptop, but I don't have a choice.

arcsine September 29 2008, 19:37:18 UTC

Then yeah, it's probably the best deal for that price. I know the feeling, dude.

crashsite68 September 29 2008, 19:44:45 UTC

I'm gonna try UBCD and reinstall the bios tonight first, but if that doesn't work... I think its dead.

I did a restart and it didn't restart. I did diagnostic tests and everything checks out ok.

I pulled the hard drive and fired it up via usb on my desktop - no problem.

I unplugged everything, just hit the power button and it shows the bios startup screen then goes blank and NEVER attempts to access the hard drive.

I've checked all the settings, it just doesn't start. Thats why I figure the bios might be effed up.

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