$1500 or $300 After the soldered-in RAM malfunctioned in my Lenovo Yoga 2 Pro just three months past the warranty expiration, their Authorized Repair Center quoted me $1500 to repair it: US$950 for a new motherboard from Lenovo, plus the technician's time, plus taxes. As that was more than the cost of buying the computer a year earlier, I threw it into our recycling bin. (I wrote about all the problems with Lenovo's Yoga 2 Pro at http://www.worldcadaccess.com/blog/2015/12/why-ill-never-buy-another-lenovo.html.) But then I wondered: could I get a motherboard from another source. I recalled when a roommate spilled orange juice on my... Read more →
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