Hey guys!
Looking for a bit of advice,
I got a new laptop August 2010, and it was mid range at the time but had decent enough performance for what i wanted.
Its a Dell Inspiron 1546
15" Dual core AMD turion
Windows 7 64bit
4gb ram
amd graphics card (i think)
It was quick for the price I paid for it (around £400) and it was used for college work and the occasion minecraft sesh!
Now, ive not used it for 3 months at least due to annoying problems
1. Battery doesnt charge (message showing adaptor not recognised pops up when its plugged in) and has to be ran of mains constantly
2. heats up incredibly quickly to sometimes over 95 degrees C (when under load)
3. performance has gone down the drain dramatically, Frame rate issues. Almost seems as if all the RAMs been eaten by something despite having closed all processes and programmes in task manager...
After talking to Dell customer support, they gave me a quote of £200+ for a new motherboard and fan unit... F*** that!!!!
I was wondering, is it worth selling it in the current condition, putting the money towards a new pc (probably a desktop), or.. fixing it and putting more RAM in?
Or wildcard.. Getting finance on a new Macbook pro retina?
Tom
Looking for a bit of advice,
I got a new laptop August 2010, and it was mid range at the time but had decent enough performance for what i wanted.
Its a Dell Inspiron 1546
15" Dual core AMD turion
Windows 7 64bit
4gb ram
amd graphics card (i think)
It was quick for the price I paid for it (around £400) and it was used for college work and the occasion minecraft sesh!
Now, ive not used it for 3 months at least due to annoying problems
1. Battery doesnt charge (message showing adaptor not recognised pops up when its plugged in) and has to be ran of mains constantly
2. heats up incredibly quickly to sometimes over 95 degrees C (when under load)
3. performance has gone down the drain dramatically, Frame rate issues. Almost seems as if all the RAMs been eaten by something despite having closed all processes and programmes in task manager...
After talking to Dell customer support, they gave me a quote of £200+ for a new motherboard and fan unit... F*** that!!!!
I was wondering, is it worth selling it in the current condition, putting the money towards a new pc (probably a desktop), or.. fixing it and putting more RAM in?
Or wildcard.. Getting finance on a new Macbook pro retina?
Tom