The laptop lid is now being a real nightmare! If I put it down, the lid can now drop easily forwards or backwards - not only making it a pain, but also causing more damage each time.
Looked at new laptop prices earlier - and I won't be replacing it for some time yet! I thought the prices were under £300 now, but seems not. Plus of course, it is very difficult to get a decent spec laptop which doesn't run Windows - and the hassle of reclaiming the "Windows Tax" back can be either easy (see examples of Dell for instance who will refund no problem) or hard/impossible (see examples of Acer UK claiming that they will refund 30 odd quid, but you need to send the laptop to their "service" centre to have the HDD formatted for 50 odd quid plus VAT!)
As a technician, oddly enough, I can just about manage to format a hard drive! I certainly wouldn't pay 50 odd notes for the task to some half witted Acer employee!
So stuck with the knackered lappie for now at least.... Luckily, I do still have my desktop machine and my little EeePC - but the desktop is upstairs and it gets chilly there in winter and the EeePC is a little too small for day to day use. A lovely machine for what I use it for (connecting my webcam to my telescope and videoing planets etc) but not ideal for heavy day to day use - plus of course, only a 4Gb flash drive isn't great for some of the things I do.
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