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[BigD145]

Macbooks are built out of cheaper parts than Toshibas and he'll just be paying more.

The ThinkPad line would put up with more abuse but honestly a change in how a laptop is handled would go a long ways. Just tell your brother to literally burn $2000. Or he can give the money to me so I can get some decent health care. No more broken laptops that way. Save a laptop and ease my pain.

[Aklyon]

Thirding the above. If one breaks its unlucky, if two do its not good but could still be bad luck, but if all of them are he must be doing something bad or dumb with them. A macbook would be a more expensive loss that isn't any more durable.

[Sonlirain]

4'thing.
There are some nasty cheap laptops in our house that survived more than a few years one being literally over 10 years old and so outdated it's barely usable for anything that's not retro gaming and simple paperwork but it works. If a laptop breaks it really had to be seriously mishandled (electronics are surprisingly durable TBH).

[Amperzand]

Or some serious bad luck with quality control, but I doubt it.

[dennislp3]

yeah if quality control missed it then it is usually dead when you get it or within a month

[AzyWng]

I personally wouldn't. He'd just end up with a broken more expensive laptop.

What does he do to laptops to break them so fast?

I don't know.

Does Planetside 2 or similar videogames have any detrimental effects on newly purchased computers?

[Aklyon]

Besides overheating if you block the vents, I don't think so.

[Amperzand]

What's actually broken in the previous machines? I feel that's fairly important to know.

[AzyWng]

What's actually broken in the previous machines? I feel that's fairly important to know.

To be honest... I never asked, and none of my family members ever said specifically what caused the breakdown.

[Broseph Stalin]

So I have a lot of technology and I've decided to start making the most of it. While sorting through some old tech junk I noticed a an old laptop that wasn't broken, it just had an hdmi port and just needed to be purged of adware, malware, bloatware and various other wares. (I'm also considering purging it of Vista but Linux is a mountain I'm not yet ready to climb). I decided to hook it up to the television, disable the monitor, and use remote desktop to control it from my good laptop, my phone, or my tablet. It's working pretty good but it's having major heating problems. Any advice on cutting down on this?

[Flying Dice]

Give it a good dusting with compressed air (don't fuck up the fan), chances are an old laptop that's been sitting around is absolutely filthy with dust.

Or it could just be a model that runs hot, in which case you can't do much worth doing beyond elevating it and maybe setting a fan up to blow under/over/around the keyboard.

[Broseph Stalin]

Give it a good dusting with compressed air (don't fuck up the fan), chances are an old laptop that's been sitting around is absolutely filthy with dust.

Or it could just be a model that runs hot, in which case you can't do much worth doing beyond elevating it and maybe setting a fan up to blow under/over/around the keyboard.

The CPU is hitting 90c celsius, If that's normal then it might be intended to double as a hot pad. I figured I'd have to work it over with some canned air and change out the thermal paste but I guess there's no real tricks I can pull to give it a boost.

[Flying Dice]

Give it a good dusting with compressed air (don't fuck up the fan), chances are an old laptop that's been sitting around is absolutely filthy with dust.

Or it could just be a model that runs hot, in which case you can't do much worth doing beyond elevating it and maybe setting a fan up to blow under/over/around the keyboard.

The CPU is hitting 90c celsius, If that's normal then it might be intended to double as a hot pad. I figured I'd have to work it over with some canned air and change out the thermal paste but I guess there's no real tricks I can pull to give it a boost.

I had a Lenovo laptop that ran in the mid-80s Celsius straight out of the box, was apparently the normal condition of the model. So yeah, if it's a design that doesn't distribute heat that well, it can get really damn hot. Laptop cases don't exactly have the space to spare for good fans, empty space, or large heatsinks. :I

But again, there's a good chance that it's just fucking full of dust and old.

[Amperzand]

The nice thing about the semi-gaming laptops I'm considering is that their cooling systems are pretty strong for any less processing-heavy applications. Also they weigh like four more pounds than machines without the extra hardware, but whatever, I am much stronk human stick-figure, it's k.

[AzyWng]

Talked with my brother, he says all he did was put the laptop in his backpack before going on the plane. He says when he got off the laptop wouldn't turn on.

Maybe turbulence or similar caused it to break? But if so...

In any case, my brother's looking for an apple laptop for college now that Toshiba and Dell have both failed him..