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 -- Brian <brian@Awfulhak.org> <brian@[uk.]FreeBSD.org> <http://www.Awfulhak.org> <brian@[uk.]OpenBSD.org> 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
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