Re: [tlug] Laptop repair

[Jawaad Mahmood <jawaad.mahmood@example.com>]

On Mon, Sep 20, 2010 at 8:39 AM, Jean-Christian Imbeault <jc.imbeault@example.com> wrote:

Dear TLUG,

Can anyone recommend a good and relatively cheap laptop repair shop in
Tokyo? I've 4 year old IBM Thinkpad with Ubuntu that has been serving
me very well and this morning the screen decided to give out; I get a
picture but it is so faint as to be useless. I'm hoping that replacing
the screen won't be too expensive, though I have a bad feeling that it
might be almost as much as buying a replacement used laptop ...

Thanks in advance!

Jc

Hi JC,

I have seen a lot of Thinkpad parts and screens on sale in the back streets of Akihabara.  However, are you really sure you want to try to patch it up?  I personally had to deal with the pain of parting with a quality laptop over monitor issues, but the expense of keeping it around is usually not worth the hassle.  You're looking at a minimum of 30,000 yen for the repair.  (That's what it cost me when a friend's cat destroyed my NEC Laptop monitor) 

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Sincerely yours, 

Jawaad Mahmood
http://www.jawaadmahmood.com
080-4204-7198