Laptop battery turned into a balloon.

by "TheTurbochargedSquirrel" (thatsquirrel)
Published 04/05/2017 at 14:16

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Don’t worry, I have a backup plan. Let’s see how a 900MHz ARM processor handles an engineering student’s workload.

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"TheTurbochargedSquirrel" (thatsquirrel)
04/05/2017 at 14:33, STARS: 0

Update - I want my i7 back! *cries*

"facw" (facw)
04/05/2017 at 14:34, STARS: 0

Back in my day I had a 166MHz K6 that I used for Magic . I’m quite sure your ARM setup surpasses it.

"Tripper" (tripe46)
04/05/2017 at 14:37, STARS: 0

Yikes, that has happened to a few of our Latitude E7440's. One of them even started smoking. I very gingerly walked it out to the dumpster in a big box.

"TheTurbochargedSquirrel" (thatsquirrel)
04/05/2017 at 14:39, STARS: 1

Mine was attempting to go full alien chest burster out the track pad. Not good. It’s only a 15 month old laptop too.

"TheTurbochargedSquirrel" (thatsquirrel)
04/05/2017 at 14:44, STARS: 0

The big issue I’m running into (besides it just being super slow) is finding arm versions of the x86 programs I use.

"facw" (facw)
04/05/2017 at 14:59, STARS: 0

Time to compile everything from source!

"TheTurbochargedSquirrel" (thatsquirrel)
04/05/2017 at 15:01, STARS: 1

I actually want to try recompiling some desktop Linux applications to see if I can get them to run on the ARM hardware.

"Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)" (6speedhaven)
04/12/2017 at 12:17, STARS: 0

If you purchased it with a credit card, that has some nice benefits on the cardholder agreement, you can’t do anything about a laptop that’s less than 2 years old?

"TheTurbochargedSquirrel" (thatsquirrel)
04/12/2017 at 13:51, STARS: 1

I bought my laptop through my university and it came with a 3 year warranty which covers both hardware failures and accidents. And because of university discounts after tax and delivery I still payed almost $100 under the list price on Dells site (which only has a 1 year warranty).