{"id":727,"date":"2009-07-07T15:54:50","date_gmt":"2009-07-07T20:54:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.juixe.com\/techknow\/?p=727"},"modified":"2009-07-07T15:54:50","modified_gmt":"2009-07-07T20:54:50","slug":"disposable-laptops","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/2009\/07\/07\/disposable-laptops\/","title":{"rendered":"Disposable Laptops"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think the price range of laptops have made them disposable.  Recently, I had the choice of sending an HP laptop repaired at $400 or just buy a new one for about the same price.  There are many laptop models, from many vendors, at the sub-$500 dollar range.  So, what would you do?  Deal with customer support, send in your laptop, wait a week to have the display fixed or just go in to Best Buy and get a new one?  The choice is clear, buy a new one.<\/p>\n<p>This wasn&#8217;t so clear a few months ago, when I had a similar decision to make when four year old Apple laptop had problems recharging the battery.  As it was out of warranty, I paid $300 dollars to send it in to have the power unit repaired and had he laptop refurbished to original manufacturing specifications.  Two months later, the monitor was crapping out!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think the price range of laptops have made them disposable. Recently, I had the choice of sending an HP laptop repaired at $400 or just buy a new one for about the same price. There are many laptop models, from many vendors, at the sub-$500 dollar range. So, what would you do? Deal with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p902K-bJ","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=727"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/727\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=727"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=727"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/juixe.com\/techknow\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=727"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}