From owner-freebsd-mobile Wed Jul 19 13:57:21 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-mobile@freebsd.org Received: from Awfulhak.org (tun.AwfulHak.org [194.242.139.173]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B14C937BE86 for ; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 13:57:08 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from brian@Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (root@hak.lan.awfulhak.org [172.16.0.12]) by Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA03766; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 21:55:16 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Received: from hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (brian@localhost [127.0.0.1]) by hak.lan.Awfulhak.org (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id VAA37668; Wed, 19 Jul 2000 21:55:12 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from brian@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org) Message-Id: <200007192055.VAA37668@hak.lan.Awfulhak.org> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: Peter Radcliffe Cc: freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG, brian@Awfulhak.org Subject: Re: Sony laptop repair ? In-Reply-To: Message from Peter Radcliffe of "Tue, 18 Jul 2000 23:05:44 EDT." <20000718230543.A29813@pir.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 19 Jul 2000 21:55:09 +0100 From: Brian Somers Sender: owner-freebsd-mobile@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org 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 -- Brian Don't _EVER_ lose your sense of humour ! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-mobile" in the body of the message