Is it always cheaper to repair an old laptop than to buy a new one?
I feel like you’re limiting yourself kind of unnecessarily here. You can get a new or new-to-you laptop significantly cheaper than $1300. In fact, if your current 4-year old machine was doing the trick, you could take the $400 you’d spend repairing it and get yourself a reasonably faster laptop. I just picked up the HP-nc4200 on which I’m writing this now for a little under $400 over the summer and it’ll keep on being used as a portable web-surfer and word-processor for years to come. Unless you really need the bells and whistles of a shiny new Core 2 Duo laptop that’ll cost you that $1300, you can do really well now on Pentium-M machines, especially those that are coming off 2-3 year leases and are being refurbished for resale by their manufacturers. If you have your heart set on a new-new laptop, go for it, but don’t discount sinking that $400 into what could be most or all of a new-used laptop.
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