Recent content by entimaniac

Hopefully your tablet has turned back on. Often, if your device turns off from a low battery, it won't be able to turn back on until a little while of charging. Try no to run a device that just died until its had, say, (arbitrarily chosen amount) about 15 minutes to get a some charge back.

I fried my macbook pro with faulty power adapter. My girlfriend's mom is handy at fixing cables and I thoughtlessly tried out her "fixed" cable on my laptop and it shut it down immediately. I even smelled a little smoke. If you see a spark on a computer at all, that is a very bad thing. The...

I agree with most everyone else. It was a relatively cheap laptop to begin with, I don't think paying 20-30% of the initial cost for a repair is a good idea if it has suffered the same thing twice. I'd go with a new brand and model.

I know what to look for in specs-wise when it comes to computers but I haven't worried about a laptop in forever; I just build desktops and have a smartphone for all my mobile needs. I'm hoping to get advice about build quality more than anything I guess. So my mom has now been able to retire...