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Well damn. That’s was a great watch.
My son’s laptop worked for a year. Just a couple of weeks ago, he started to get the screen going black but you could hear the sounds. A restart would fix it. Then one day it didn’t. I thought maybe it was a dust issue causing overheating and the screen to shut off so I opened it up and blew out dust with compressed air, but it honestly wasn’t bad at all. So I pulled it into a different monitor and it would show up on that monitor, but the one on the device didn’t work so I thought maybe it was driver issues. I updated drivers, I updated Windows, then did a restart. Same thing.
After that, I tried to boot it into safe mode and then it just wouldn’t start up windows at all. Even plugged into a different monitor, I didn’t see the BIOS appear and the light would slowly flash white or green (can’t remember), but it would never get anywhere. Razer support made me prove it over a video call with several tech levels and then they told me I needed to go with my Razer Care.
Been a week and today they called me to say that they couldn’t replace my part so they settled and were cutting me a check for the price of my laptop. Now here I am and I am probably considering a Lenovo Legion or ASUS ROG now.
My hope is that this lasts my son long enough that he would rather have a desktop and that will give me the go ahead to just rebuild my old desktop with all new everything. 😂
I’m in the middle of a master’s program and career switch so I’m not keen on spending more than I have to.
Yeah, gamers nexus is usually worth the watch, for sure. My favorite part was the terrible software being a requirement to make certain hardware features work.
Good luck with your search.
Oof, yeah, they shouldn’t need the shitty proprietary software when Windows is already installed!