any pc/laptop guru's here?

[Magenta Sunset]

ok, so my 7yr old Dell Inspiron N5010 has expired.
have been advised it'll need new CPU & HDD (+Win7).
anyone fancy having a go at Lazarus-ing it?
will cover parts & beer tokens.
must come in at under £500.

[pugolliek]

Under 500 beans would buy you a far superior machine than fixing it at that money!

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[Ruan]

ok, so my 7yr old Dell Inspiron N5010 has expired.
have been advised it'll need new CPU & HDD (+Win7).
anyone fancy having a go at Lazarus-ing it?
will cover parts & beer tokens.
must come in at under £500.

Stopped turning on and/or crashing all the time?

Probably lead-free solder issues as usual - all laptops of that era have the same issues. Needs mainboard taking out and banging in oven I suspect - by the time you've done that, put it back together, you'd be best just buying a new machine.

[Eeyore]

How has it expired? Just wont start up? Id be surprised if the CPU needed replacing.

Tbh being 7 years old I would spend the money on something new. Ive been impressed with the lenovo stuff recently. As per usualy youre looking for at least two cores 4GB memory and a 500GB disk. Solid state... mmm... its fast but make sure you back up your stuff. In my experience they fail after a few years and then youre screwed.

this is a cheap good to go one with a 128GB SSD - youd probably need more space than the 60GB youd end up with after a windows install.
http://www.ebuyer.com/754038-lenovo-v110...80tl0010uk

This is the exact same but with a 500GB hard drive.
http://www.ebuyer.com/767998-lenovo-v110...80tl000puk

[Magenta Sunset]

How has it expired? Just wont start up? Id be surprised if the CPU needed replacing.

Tbh being 7 years old I would spend the money on something new. Ive been impressed with the lenovo stuff recently. As per usualy youre looking for at least two cores  4GB memory and a 500GB disk. Solid state... mmm... its fast but make sure you back up your stuff. In my experience they fail after a few years and then youre screwed.

this is a cheap good to go one with a 128GB SSD - youd probably need more space than the 60GB youd end up with after a windows install.
http://www.ebuyer.com/754038-lenovo-v110...80tl0010uk

This is the exact same but with a 500GB hard drive.
http://www.ebuyer.com/767998-lenovo-v110...80tl000puk

not sure exactly. did get ransomed a while back. (didn't pay)
repairman said it beeped 7x (CPU fail code?) maybe solder/heatsink glue fail.
have seen a decent one from IJT, but no stock at present.
won't buy Lenovo, got one for work. how I've not flung it I don't know.

[7057sam]

You get a 120 gb ssd for like £ 50
And a i5 2 series(2500k) for 25 second hand from cex and that what i run on my gamming pc,which can run most stuff on high

[Magenta Sunset]

it came with an i5 + 500Gb ?sata? originally

[Eeyore]

Lenovo is really good. One brand can make shit stuff. Their current line up is great.

[Dave]

My misso just got one of them HP Specre X360 things, I think its the mutts nutts, but it was also the only thing we could legitimately get in Australia. The markets not that great here because everyone is outsite punching kangaroos

[r3k1355]

Solid state... mmm... its fast but make sure you back up your stuff. In my experience they fail after a few years and then youre screwed.

I've not had one fail in any of my machines, I've been running two SSD's in Raid stripe 0 for six years now and it's been faultless.

[Eeyore]

Solid state... mmm... its fast but make sure you back up your stuff. In my experience they fail after a few years and then youre screwed.

I've not had one fail in any of my machines, I've been running two SSD's in Raid stripe 0 for six years now and it's been faultless.

are you using them for OS? What brand etc? Mine have probably been more budget ones. 250GB corsairs etc

[r3k1355]

Yea OS and programs only, keep all the data on a large 3.5" HDD.
They are two 120GB Corsair drives from what I remember, but I run Samsung drives in laptops as they (used) to be the best.