I have been hanging on to this "brick" for as long as I could lol. It's definitely taking a dump. Literally the day after the warrantee expired it started over heating...that was like 5 years ago. I had the fan replaced, but it didn't help, so I have been dealing with this issue for forever and it is getting worse.
Good thing that it only really wants to shut down when I am in the middle of creating/printing labels LOL. So I have been making a sheet of labels and putting it into hibernate to let it cool off. At least then it saves what I am doing without just shutting down on its own. And it gives no warning.
Now it is wanting to run a scan disk every time I reboot it, which is every time it overheats lol. I gave in and ran it one night, then it overheated in the middle of the scan.
And last year it started doing a fun thing: the screen wouldn't turn on, but that was fixed by removing the battery. So now it needs to be plugged in all the time.
I am leaning towards a Mac because my other devices are Apple. They are just so darned expensive and I am wondering if its worth the expense compared to another cheaper "brick". I was all set to put one in my shopping cart with Best Buys, but then I noticed that it didn't have the side number key pad lol. Oddly enough that prevented me from purchasing on the spot lol. So I thought...let me think about this first, what else am I not going to like about it.
So I thought I would get some opinions...
Good thing that it only really wants to shut down when I am in the middle of creating/printing labels LOL. So I have been making a sheet of labels and putting it into hibernate to let it cool off. At least then it saves what I am doing without just shutting down on its own. And it gives no warning.
Now it is wanting to run a scan disk every time I reboot it, which is every time it overheats lol. I gave in and ran it one night, then it overheated in the middle of the scan.
And last year it started doing a fun thing: the screen wouldn't turn on, but that was fixed by removing the battery. So now it needs to be plugged in all the time.
I am leaning towards a Mac because my other devices are Apple. They are just so darned expensive and I am wondering if its worth the expense compared to another cheaper "brick". I was all set to put one in my shopping cart with Best Buys, but then I noticed that it didn't have the side number key pad lol. Oddly enough that prevented me from purchasing on the spot lol. So I thought...let me think about this first, what else am I not going to like about it.
So I thought I would get some opinions...