Who in melbourne is good at laptop upgrades? I have a Lenovo X200 (no longer my primary laptop). I'm considering upgrading the hard drive, perhaps to a hybrid drive, and upgrading the memory modules. Ideally, I'm looking for a supplier who can install the components for me. Also, I'm not sure whether this laptop's BIOS reports errors if you use non-Lenovo drives. It's running Linux of course. I haven't made a final decision about this, but I'm certainly thinking about it.
On 4/08/2014 10:10 AM, Jason White wrote:
Who in melbourne is good at laptop upgrades? I have a Lenovo X200 (no longer my primary laptop). I'm considering upgrading the hard drive, perhaps to a hybrid drive, and upgrading the memory modules. Ideally, I'm looking for a supplier who can install the components for me. Also, I'm not sure whether this laptop's BIOS reports errors if you use non-Lenovo drives.
It's running Linux of course.
I haven't made a final decision about this, but I'm certainly thinking about it.
_______________________________________________ luv-talk mailing list luv-talk@luv.asn.au http://lists.luv.asn.au/listinfo/luv-talk Hi Jason,
Doesn't sound too challenging, but if you want to use someone who is a specialist in this area, we send off laptop repairs to: Laptop Kings 219 Park St South Melbourne I doubt that they have any Linux specific expertise, but they certainly know laptops and have spares for most close at hand. cheers Brian
Brian Parish <bmp@sepit.com.au> wrote:
Doesn't sound too challenging, but if you want to use someone who is a specialist in this area, we send off laptop repairs to:
Laptop Kings 219 Park St South Melbourne
I doubt that they have any Linux specific expertise, but they certainly know laptops and have spares for most close at hand.
Excellent, thanks.
Traditionally upgrading a hard drive and the second DIMM in a Thinkpad has been really easy. It's something that anyone can do. Upgrading the first DIMM is a little tricky and requires taking out the keyboard. If your system has 4G of RAM in 2*2G then you can easily upgrade it to 6G but 8G would be harder. If you only have 1 DIMM installed then it's easier to upgrade it significantly. -- Sent from my Samsung Galaxy Note 2 with K-9 Mail.
On Mon, 4 Aug 2014 10:10:58 +1000 Jason White <jason@jasonjgw.net> wrote: Hi Jason, If you are not too much in a hurry, I am thinking that it may be possible for someone to do that during a Beginner's Workshop for you. Some how you will have to get the laptop to the workshop and get it back, and provide the spare drive and memory modules. It may also be a good opportunity for others who are there to learn about a few things while this is being done. There are some risks associated to the fact that it wont be a "professional" job, but you may be happy to take those risks. Cheers Daniel.
Who in melbourne is good at laptop upgrades? I have a Lenovo X200 (no longer my primary laptop). I'm considering upgrading the hard drive, perhaps to a hybrid drive, and upgrading the memory modules. Ideally, I'm looking for a supplier who can install the components for me. Also, I'm not sure whether this laptop's BIOS reports errors if you use non-Lenovo drives.
It's running Linux of course.
I haven't made a final decision about this, but I'm certainly thinking about it.
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Dan062 <dan062@yahoo.com.au> wrote:
If you are not too much in a hurry, I am thinking that it may be possible for someone to do that during a Beginner's Workshop for you. Some how you will have to get the laptop to the workshop and get it back, and provide the spare drive and memory modules. It may also be a good opportunity for others who are there to learn about a few things while this is being done. There are some risks associated to the fact that it wont be a "professional" job, but you may be happy to take those risks.
Thanks. this would indeed be a good learning opportunity at the workshop. I'll have to check my schedule, though, as I'm working to deadlines due to some anticipated travel in the near future.
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