On 26/07/15 12:00, [email protected] wrote:
I read that comment and thought "Is it an acer? I bet its an acer"
I've got a couple of acers. I have never spent any money to buy them,
and having seen the construction I never will.
One was a travelmate, their upper-range business class model with an
"all day" battery.
It worked well enough, but sometimes just misbehaved, crashing or
freezing or rebooting. The owner was positive it had an anger sensor,
cos the madder it made him the more it acted up.
I thought "pssht whatever" but it turns out he was right - the mouse
button microswitches were soldered directly to the mainboard not a
daughterboard on the case. So whenever he got a bit angry he pressed
the mouse buttons harder, which flexed the board resulting in general
non-specific funkiness.
I told the owner the cause, and admitted that he was kinda right. Has
not let me forget it to this day....
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Power sockets live longer if you avoid stowing the laptop with the power
plug connected. This puts undue stresses on the plug/socket and makes
it weak.
Also avoid pushing laptop back when its plugged in, same reasoning.
The fixes are
1) Get a dock and use it - only generally fits one model/brand of laptop.
2) Don't put the laptop in a bag with the PSU cable attached.
3) Use laptops with sideways plugs on the PSU, or magsafe style connectors.
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Criggie
http://criggie.org.nz/
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