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    Unsatisfied with Laptop, Should I sell it and buy the one I want?

    A while back, I ordered a used GE60 2OE-003us off of Ebay for 625 USD. It came with a decent processor and GPU, but it didn't have the features I was looking for. The battery life was too short, the keyboard didn't light up, and it only had 1 2.5" bay and 2 RAM slots. I felt like I rushed buying...
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    Help with finding a Barebones laptop with a G2 socket?

    After the motherboard on my old laptop died out, I was able to salvage the processor (i7-2670QM) and 8 GB of memory. The processor is good, and will fit barebone machines with the G2 socket (ivy bridge/sandy bridge). So I thought I would be able to buy a cheap barebone laptop that I could...
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    I used the wrong AC adapter for my laptop (y470p) , now it's dead and I'm trying to find out what was damaged.

    When I was travelling, I used someone else's charger (19V, 2.34A) that had a far lower amperage than what my original charger was (19.5 VDC, 6.15A). The computer kept rejecting the charger, with the battery light flashing orange and the battery refusing to charge. To get around this, I powered...