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Farnhamia wrote:

Kannap wrote:Wow its costing me $450 to have Geek Squad replace my laptop screen.

I'm not up on what these things cost but I would expect replacing the screen to be a bit pricey. That sucks.

Counting the price I bought the laptop for two months ago and the price of the screen replacement, I've spent over $1,000 on this laptop.

So here's to hoping there's not anymore problems with it until I inevitably need to replace it in 4 years.

Farnhamia wrote:

Kannap wrote:Wow its costing me $450 to have Geek Squad replace my laptop screen.

I'm not up on what these things cost but I would expect replacing the screen to be a bit pricey. That sucks.

Depending on the computer and what its use is (Dell vs Apple vs etc...., Gaming vs work, and so on...), prices can range from $100 just for labor up to $1000 for parts and other work.

New haven america wrote:

Kannap wrote:Wow its costing me $450 to have Geek Squad replace my laptop screen.

$550 for my new motherboard.

It's been ~2 weeks and I still don't know if it's done.

Mine's been gone for a week, I've been told they ordered parts and I need to go to a Best Buy and pay the charges before they continue working on my laptop.

New haven america wrote:

Farnhamia wrote:I'm not up on what these things cost but I would expect replacing the screen to be a bit pricey. That sucks.

Depending on the computer and what its use is (Dell vs Apple vs etc...., Gaming vs work, and so on...), prices can range from $100 just for labor up to $1000 for parts and other work.

I think the minimum they charge - if they send it off to their service center - is $199 for diagnostics. So you're not getting out of Best Buy cheap.

Honestly, when I move back to Asheville I'm planning on buying a nice desktop - it's gonna be sweet.

Kannap wrote:

New haven america wrote:Depending on the computer and what its use is (Dell vs Apple vs etc...., Gaming vs work, and so on...), prices can range from $100 just for labor up to $1000 for parts and other work.

I think the minimum they charge - if they send it off to their service center - is $199 for diagnostics. So you're not getting out of Best Buy cheap.

This is why you look for local shops, cause the one I went to didn't charge me anything for diagnostics.

Heloin wrote:

Valrifell wrote:
Or I could memorize the fundamental theorems of Calculus, go back in time, kill everyone who invented calculus, and then invent calculus. Yesss, this is a good plan.

A dangerous game you'd be playing there. You'd get students from the future coming back in time trying to kill you to get out of calculus on a regular basis.

By that point I'll have mastered their game and outplay them effortlessly.

Kannap wrote:Wow its costing me $450 to have Geek Squad replace my laptop screen.

Geek Squad is pretty awful about overcharging. When I had to replace my laptop's harddrive, I noticed they charged something like $70 for the courtesy of installing Chrome and the like.

Kannap wrote:Wow its costing me $450 to have Geek Squad replace my laptop screen.

At that point you should just start a nest a egg for a new pc.

Asherahan wrote:

Kannap wrote:Wow its costing me $450 to have Geek Squad replace my laptop screen.

At that point you should just start a nest a egg for a new pc.

At that point... I think a newer laptop might be better.

I had a VAIO which I carelessly dropped. The casing was 20% damaged, like the SD card and some of the slots were damaged, and there were cracks on the case, but otherwise, the laptop was functional.

They wanted $600 to fix the entire thing.

So I started saving up and shopped for a new laptop, and didn't look back since... well, the old laptop actually now has some use now that I nuked and installed Linux on it. Bottom line is... yeah, easier said than done, but I think you're better off looking for a new laptop. The specs will be pretty cool too!

Valentine Z wrote:

Asherahan wrote:At that point you should just start a nest a egg for a new pc.

At that point... I think a newer laptop might be better.

I had a VAIO which I carelessly dropped. The casing was 20% damaged, like the SD card and some of the slots were damaged, and there were cracks on the case, but otherwise, the laptop was functional.

They wanted $600 to fix the entire thing.

So I started saving up and shopped for a new laptop, and didn't look back since... well, the old laptop actually now has some use now that I nuked and installed Linux on it. Bottom line is... yeah, easier said than done, but I think you're better off looking for a new laptop. The specs will be pretty cool too!

What the valentine said.

Heloin wrote:

Valrifell wrote:Guess who has to retake multivariable calculus because he got a D

That's right, it's ya boi right here.

Build a time machine and kill Newton and Leibniz. Then there won't be a calculus to fail.

What if the flux capacitor needs calculus to function?

The blAAtschApen wrote:

Heloin wrote:Build a time machine and kill Newton and Leibniz. Then there won't be a calculus to fail.

What if the flux capacitor needs calculus to function?

Then we'll just have to wait for someone from the future to send us a time machine phone booth so we can bring back Newton, pass calculus, and win the battle of the bands. It'll be excellent.

I remember writing the AP Calculus exam so long ago and getting a 5.

I could always get these high grades in all these math classes but somehow I COMPLETELY SUCKED (and still suck today) at mathematics

If I recall correctly, I even found the class kind of enjoyable (though nowhere near as fun and enjoyable as AP World History, that class was a BLAST)

When I was at school we just had a big splodge called Maths (usually a double lesson, because every kid loves double maths). So I like to imagine that this calculus is an platypus-like magical creature that possesses calculators.

Infected Mushroom wrote:I remember writing the AP Calculus exam so long ago and getting a 5.

I could always get these high grades in all these math classes but somehow I COMPLETELY SUCKED (and still suck today) at mathematics

If I recall correctly, I even found the class kind of enjoyable (though nowhere near as fun and enjoyable as AP World History, that class was a BLAST)

AP World was fun, yeah.

Heloin wrote:

The blAAtschApen wrote:
What if the flux capacitor needs calculus to function?

Then we'll just have to wait for someone from the future to send us a time machine phone booth so we can bring back Newton, pass calculus, and win the battle of the bands. It'll be excellent.

Indeed, it will be most excellent

Dumb Ideologies wrote:When I was at school we just had a big splodge called Maths (usually a double lesson, because every kid loves double maths). So I like to imagine that this calculus is an platypus-like magical creature that possesses calculators.

We seem to have inherited that from your side of the pond; there was A-Maths and Maths and, since I was in the top stream, we just had those periods squished together most of the time.

Ardrentt wrote:

Dumb Ideologies wrote:When I was at school we just had a big splodge called Maths (usually a double lesson, because every kid loves double maths). So I like to imagine that this calculus is an platypus-like magical creature that possesses calculators.

We seem to have inherited that from your side of the pond; there was A-Maths and Maths and, since I was in the top stream, we just had those periods squished together most of the time.

A-Maths? Now there's a cynical attempt to get to the top of the alphabetical list for funding tiebreaks.

Pax Nerdvana wrote:

Infected Mushroom wrote:I remember writing the AP Calculus exam so long ago and getting a 5.

I could always get these high grades in all these math classes but somehow I COMPLETELY SUCKED (and still suck today) at mathematics

If I recall correctly, I even found the class kind of enjoyable (though nowhere near as fun and enjoyable as AP World History, that class was a BLAST)

AP World was fun, yeah.

AP Chemistry and AP Physics though... ouch ouch ouch

Dumb Ideologies wrote:

Ardrentt wrote:We seem to have inherited that from your side of the pond; there was A-Maths and Maths and, since I was in the top stream, we just had those periods squished together most of the time.

A-Maths? Now there's a cynical attempt to get to the top of the alphabetical list for funding tiebreaks.

I mean, true... but also, would you want your top A+ student to be studying Z-Maths or something like that?

Ardrentt wrote:

Dumb Ideologies wrote:
A-Maths? Now there's a cynical attempt to get to the top of the alphabetical list for funding tiebreaks.

I mean, true... but also, would you want your top A+ student to be studying Z-Maths or something like that?

Z-Maths sounds perfect; a superpowered version that you have to use the power of friendship and a weird battle pose to deploy.

I hate math in all it’s forms.

Andsed wrote:I hate math in all it’s forms.

Better log out and return to the trees, then. The internet would not be possible without advanced mathematics.

The blAAtschApen wrote:

Heloin wrote:Then we'll just have to wait for someone from the future to send us a time machine phone booth so we can bring back Newton, pass calculus, and win the battle of the bands. It'll be excellent.

Indeed, it will be most excellent