What should I do about my VAIO?

Asked by Elumas (3170

) November 2nd, 2008

Okay, so I work for IT in a division of an engineering company. A coworker gave me a Sony VAIO laptop with an assumed motherboard issue for free. I have two options with the laptop. I can either A) have my conjunctures confirmed (or denied) by a technician for about $50, if confirmed I will have to pay roughly $300–450 to replace and buy whatever parts (VAIO’s are notoriously hard to MOD/fix/alter internally at all). I could B) sell the Laptop on Ebay advertising that it does not have a proper mother board (as of my opinion) and get some moolah from this.

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stratman37 (8691

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Do you have your own laptop that you are already happy with? If so, sell the vaio. If not, you’ll get A nice laptop for cheap if you fix up the vaio to keep.

eambos (8909

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I have a desktop iMac for personal use and a Windows XP at work. I would like to have a laptop loaded with ubuntu. Just for kicks and giggles.

Elumas (3170

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Ubuntu is fun. Since you don’t have a personal laptop, why not get it fixed. It’ll be like getting a $1k comp for around $400.

eambos (8909

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Great point. I’ll look over everything one last time, but I think you may have persuaded me.