Further computer stuff

[andrewducker]

I've lodged an incident with HP, using slight-legalese to get across the fact that I know of the existence of the Sale of Goods Act (1979). I'll see what they come back with. I was pretty impressed that I got a phone call from an engineer within 5 minutes of submitting the form.

In the meantime I'm using a login on Julie's desktop, which is a quad-core box, and absolutely gorgeous. I want one, badly. But not this week, if it can be helped. I've been looking to see if I can get a dead version of my laptop, to use for spares, but nothing on eBay today.

Thanks for the advice from the various people yesterday - much appreciated.

Comments

[robhu.livejournal.com]

Good luck :-)

If they're non-cooperative write them a letter. If they ignore the letter, take them to small claims court. They won't turn up, you will win and then you can get the money out of them.

[andrewducker]

I'll definitely give the letter a go.

I've always wondered about small claims courts - do companies just pay up without thinking about it if a judgement is made?

[robhu.livejournal.com]

In my totally imagined non researched or experienced world they do!

Go get 'em.

[dreema.livejournal.com]

what's the model number, i might have some spares kicking around

[andrewducker]

6735s - I'd appreciate it if you did find something!

[dreema.livejournal.com]

nothing that new, newest i have is a 6110 celery based system.

I've got all the tools and connectors if you need a hand getting stuff off the drive though.

[andrewducker]

I have the drive out already. Thanks though :->

[poisonduk.livejournal.com]

I do think you may get somewhere! They are a big company and I do honestly think 18 months is insufficient time to expect a laptop to conk out and need replacing.

Stop lusting over julie's machine!

[andrewducker]

But it's massively faster than mine! I'll take a screenshot at some point to illustrate what happens when we're both gaming. I have all the sliders set to minimum and get about 5-10FPS, she has them all set to AMAZINGLY-PRETTY and gets silky smooth animation.

[dreema.livejournal.com]

that's probably the difference between the gfx cards. Onboard with shared mem really do suck with games, even if the processor's got the clout to cope.

[andrewducker]

This is a 3200HD, which does exactly that. If I go for a new laptop rather than a desktop it'll be with something like the 4570, which has its own graphics capability.