Well it seems my $2000 or so I spent 2 years ago on a laptop has been a complete waste of money, what laptop lasts 2 years? It seems that the video card failed on the motherboard, I got another one from an american ebay seller that sells these only. Hp wanted 1k for the mobo only without service fees, etc, a local store wanted 600 for the same motherboard as mine (I paid for the 8600GS option, where its 7200 Go standard)
I put the new motherboard in, booted up awesome, everything worked like it use to, etc etc, next day it died again! It died big time this time, the screen would be all over the joint and everything, anyway I'm sick of trying to diagnose it because its so random.
There is a big saga with this failure in this laptop too, huge partitions are circulating on some forums, it got to the point Nvidia admitted the GPU ran hot and would eventually fail so what did Hp do? Not do a recall because that costs money right, they offered 1 year extended warranty, so if you fall out of it, your screwed - like me!
I sat down and thought about what I'm going to do, I'll fix it, at best all I can do is maintain the temperatures to stay cool, but it's a risk. It wasn't even running hot this time and failed. When it did fail initially though, that night was a screamer. So what do I do?
I ring HP and get shit fucking support. I ring up the HP service centres and get shit support. I looked around at all my friends with Iphones/ipods and shit, everytime they have a problem, all I hear is nothing but good support from apple. Even when I search it on the net, I never seem to find a problem with support or reliability.
I will admit, I never liked mac, but that was because I'm thinking of the days in school, double period science class or something in the computer lab finishing off that assignment, with 20minutes till the end of class and some solid work done on the assignment, BANG the fucking mac gives that error that restarts and you loose your work! That is what I hated, but it seems that is gone.
Macbook pro, to me looks pimp. I like how you can run windows, so I can keep my tuning software, battery life is a joke, they go forever and support seems to be there.
I have absolutely no idea where to find one for a good price though, they want 3k for the specs i'm after but I won't be paying that.