Laptop battery turned into a balloon.

Kinja'd!!! "TheTurbochargedSquirrel" (thatsquirrel)
04/05/2017 at 14:16 • Filed to: None

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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.


DISCUSSION (9)


Kinja'd!!! TheTurbochargedSquirrel > TheTurbochargedSquirrel
04/05/2017 at 14:33

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Update - I want my i7 back! *cries*


Kinja'd!!! facw > TheTurbochargedSquirrel
04/05/2017 at 14:34

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


Kinja'd!!! Tripper > TheTurbochargedSquirrel
04/05/2017 at 14:37

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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.


Kinja'd!!! TheTurbochargedSquirrel > Tripper
04/05/2017 at 14:39

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


Kinja'd!!! TheTurbochargedSquirrel > facw
04/05/2017 at 14:44

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


Kinja'd!!! facw > TheTurbochargedSquirrel
04/05/2017 at 14:59

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Time to compile everything from source!


Kinja'd!!! TheTurbochargedSquirrel > facw
04/05/2017 at 15:01

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


Kinja'd!!! Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST) > TheTurbochargedSquirrel
04/12/2017 at 12:17

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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?


Kinja'd!!! TheTurbochargedSquirrel > Blunion05 drives a pink S2000 (USER WAS BANNED FOR THIS POST)
04/12/2017 at 13:51

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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).