Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 21:55:09 +0100 From: Brian Somers <brian@Awfulhak.org> To: Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net> Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: Sony laptop repair ? Message-ID: <200007192055.VAA37668@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> In-Reply-To: Message from Peter Radcliffe <pir@pir.net> of "Tue, 18 Jul 2000 23:05:44 EDT." <20000718230543.A29813@pir.net>
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Turnaround @ Sony varies from 3 days to about 4 weeks - the shorter
times are more recent from what I've heard and experienced.
I don't know how much the LCD would cost, but Sony tend to be a bit
expensive on the component front.... one laptop I sent back due to a
problem with the BIOS chip which had wine spilt on it about 6 months
previously (and had worked ok ever since) ended up being a choice
between #1300 to fix it (they figured it needed a new disk (#300) &
motherboard (#800)) or a replacement for #1100... When I said that I
could buy an up-to-date model for about that and didn't believe that
the drive or motherboard were faulty, they charged me #90 to get the
bits back (including battery which I really shouldn't have sent along
in the first place).
The moral ? Assume the worst I think. Agree a price up front before
sending them anything.
Just my 0.02p
> Sorry for the somewhat offtopic post, but I know some people here have
> had a Sony laptop sent off for repair.
>
> I've just managed to crack the screen on mine :/ and am wondering how
> long it took to get other people's laptops repaired and if anyone has
> had the LCD replaced and if so, how much it cost ?
>
> On top of the cost for sending it off and having it looked at and a
> repair estimate I really don't want to find out it would be cheaper to
> buy a new one _after_ paying that cost too :/
>
> *sigh*
>
> Thanks,
> Peter.
>
> --
> pir pir@pir.net pir@net.tufts.edu
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