Date: Fri, 04 May 2001 10:31:22 -0700
From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?=B7TechnoDragon=B7?= <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Screen smashed! Where do I go?
>Hi all - new to the list.
>
>My dog knocked over my Libretto 50CT and smashed the screen. When I brought
>it to the dealer he said that it would be cheaper to just buy a new
>Libretto. Of course, he was a dealer. Where is the least expensive place
>to get this thing fixed. I am based in New York City.
Unfortunately, in the industry, we refer to this as "foobared".
I joined this list a long time ago when I bought a L70 and had the
screen go kaputz on my shortly after purchasing it. I searched high and
low, and could only find new screens for $500-$600, and found one
"refurbished screen" for $350. I had gotten lucky and spent $250 on the L70
in the first place and didn't like the idea of spending more just to fix
the screen, but however it may seem, the several hundred dollar cost of the
laptop is mostly in the screen. The rest of the laptop is just a molded
plastic case, circuit board(s), off the shelf controller chips, ram chips,
smt components, etc. If the laptop were sold new without a screen,
requiring an external monitor to be used, then the laptop would probably go
for like $200-$300 or so.
My roommate had this happen to his laptop a year ago. He cracked the
screen and insisted that a new screen could be found for a dirt cheap
price. For nearly a month he went to stores across the nation (he's a long
haul trucker) and every store told him that it'd be cheaper to just buy a
new laptop than fix the existing one. Finally, he came home with a brand
new laptop one day and just gave me the old one.
I got lucky with my 70 and found a guy on the list with a screen for
sale, I broke down and forked over a couple of hundred dollars, it was
cheaper than a new 70, not by a whole lot though. But I got my 70 back in
full operation and it has been very well ever since.
I would recommend looking for a used and or damaged libretto with a
good screen. I know that the screens of the 50's, 60's and 70's are
interchangeable, so if you find any of those you can take the screen out of
one of those. I don't know about the 20 and 30, the screens out of those
may or may not work.
If you find a screen and want some help replacing it yourself, I'll
be more than happy to help instruct.
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