So, I dropped my wife's laptop......

[MikeofTulsa Moderator]

I hate to tell you this buy windows xp is no longer offered on new computers only netbooks. Get a mac I have dropped mine 3 times and it also has been strapped to the back of a motorcycle for countless miles. Had mine for 3 years great laptop dose every single thing that a windows computer can except get viruses LOL. Yes I even take it to lan parties for some gaming as well.

lol thats a great joke.

Lenovo is a good brand? are you ****ing kidding me? I have one of there laptops from 98, its a celeron 400, 256mb ram and a 40gb hd with 8mb ATI Radon graphics.. it was taken care of very well, but its in well over 20 parts now, all the covers on the bottom have broken and fallen off, keys fall off the keyboard, and the DC jack literally broke off and fell out. if that's a good brand I would hate to see what a crap brand is.

I know quality may change but any laptop should last forever if its taken care of.. I still have a Mac laptop from the 80's in perfect condition except a few scratches

lol, thats an even better joke. if you expect any laptop or computer to last 11 yrs w/ no problems or needing any parts replaced you have horrible expectations.

 

[RowJoe 10+ year member]

I know quality may change but any laptop should last forever if its taken care of.. I still have a Mac laptop from the 80's in perfect condition except a few scratches

A few scratches on your laptop means it is not in perfect condition. Some people are awful at describing things... :facepalm:

 

[tigerf117 10+ year member]

All laptop manufacturers have crappy models. All car manufacturers have some lemons. Period. I take apart and fix hundreds of laptops a year and I've seen crappy Dells, HPs, IBM/Lenovos, Gateways, Acers. Generally Acer doesn't have the best build quality, followed by HP/Compaq. Right now HP/Compaq has the highest failure rate of any laptop, so I'd stay away from there (we get more HPs/Compaqs in the shop that all other brands combined for hardware issues). Also, you should not base your opinion on a whole company from 1 product from 11years ago. That's ignorant.

You won't be able to find a laptop with XP (edit:for that price point) on it unless its refurb. In which case you may want to look at buying used. Also, you should have an XP sticker on the bottom of the laptop you broke. Use that key to install XP on any machine you get. All you need to do is go to the support page for that specific model and see if they have to option of downloading XP drivers. If not, I wouldn't bother.

 

[Compjake 10+ year member]

I mean perfect physical condition, nothing was broken and it worked 100%. I don't consider normal wear and tear a defect, its something that's unavoidable on laptop that's actually used.

a laptop or any computer to last 11 years with no problems? easy, I had a IBM system from 1988 that had all original stock parts in it from 1988 that was still 100% functional, the only damage to it was fading from the sun.

my simple point was things are made cheap and to be thrown away. its bs, if I have to put out $700 for a laptop it should work without physically falling apart from NORMAL use after 11 years or even 5 years.