Laptop update
June 22, 2009 - Australia & ENGLISH - (0) COMMENTsI will make it short. WordPress didn’t save my long post that I wrote on almost all day. Well, it was not meant to be published I guess.
In a nutshell: My laptop’s ac power adapter is not the broken part of my laptop. I went to a store to test my laptop with a brand new power unit. Still didn’t work. Then I went to the HP service dealer in Perth. They wanted to have $110 for the first quote and also $110 for saving my data from my hard-drive. Even up to $800 for replacing the motherboard (if it really is the reason for not turning on). Too much; I decided to do it better on my own. 
That said, I bought an external case for my laptop’s hard drive. Why? To get it out of the laptop, inside the external case, plug in the USB into another laptop, e.g. Nathan’s, trying to access and save my laptop’s data before it takes the last breath.
The external case was only $15! Aluminium, USB powered. Great deal!
What can I say? Doc Nate (who normally puts his hands on Mac’s only) opened up my laptop and took the hard drive out, put it into the external case, plugged the USB in the drive and also in his Macbook Pro. Running! Within seconds I could see my files. All there. Yay! 
This means that my hard drive was and is not damaged. It really seems to be the motherboard, which unfortunately is too expensive to replace for my old laptop. Not worth it. Therefore: looking for a new cheap but good replacement….maybe a netbook? 10inch? 13inch? Dell, Toshiba, Asus, HP or MSI?
Well, I didn’t really plan to spend money for a new laptop right now…therefore it needs to be a bargain baby. Of course, I want the best for the least. :P DRAMA! 
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