[TriLUG] Advice Please

[John Mitchell via TriLUG]

Dwain,

If it was me, I'd look into a used one of your model with a cracked screen
on ebay.
john mitchell

On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 11:16 AM Dwain Sims via TriLUG <trilug at trilug.org>
wrote:

> Generally have I had good luck with Thinkpads over the years.  Reading
> more, this particular model with an AMD processor, which probably has
> nothing to do with this failure, has been prone to GPU death and when it
> does it takes the entire MB with it.  There appears to be no repair.  It is
> a very clean system with no real signs of wear.  It looks like it just came
> out of the shipping box.  I hate to see it dead.  A new MB is probably
> 250-300 which makes it borderline unrepairable.
>
> Thanks for all of the tips!
>
> Dwain
>
> On Fri, Feb 21, 2025 at 10:21 AM Joseph Mack NA3T <jmack at trilug.org>
> wrote:
>
> > On Thu, 20 Feb 2025, Dwain Sims via TriLUG wrote:
> >
> > > I left it on over night and I am recharging it today.  Still nothing.
> > Just
> > > a paper weight.
> >
> > Sorry to hear it.
> >
> > I guess you're now amenable to advice on what to replace it with.
> >
> > o I had Thinkpads for 20 years and liked them a lot. I understand that
> > when they went full Lenovo the quality dropped. This may be what's
> > happened to you.
> >
> > o I have a Dell laptop now. It's OK, but I dont need a wide screen (1440
> > pixels) on a laptop and I'd rather have the smaller format of the
> Thinkpad
> > (1024*768) and the smaller size of the laptop. As well the large built-in
> > Dell mousepad, in the center of the keyboard area, is under my hands when
> > I type and I have to manually turn it off (which I can only do after
> > bootup) and use an external mouse, which negates the point of having a
> > built-in mousepad. The only way you can type with the Dell mousepad on,
> is
> > to hold your hands in the air. The Thinkpads had a small nubbin in the
> > middle of the keyboard, for the mouse, which didn't get activated when
> you
> > typed.
> >
> > Joe
> > --
> > Joseph Mack NA3T EME(B,D), FM05lw North Carolina
> > Don't upgrade a working machine - it won't work any
> > better - it could work worse; it may not work at all.
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> >
> >
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