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Hey everyone, I'm looking for some help in purchasing a new laptop. The thing is, I purchased a new hard drive about 7 months ago for the one that I have, and I'd really love to find a place that would discount the cost of a hard drive (and possibly the OS since I have Win 7 Ultimate on disc) so I can save money.
I'm looking for a work laptop that I can use in conjunction with Visual Studio, Eclipse, Photoshop, and Maya for game development and software programming. But since I already have a new 2.5" drive, I don't need one of the complete laptops you'd buy in stores. My price range is around $600, but I need something good enough for the previously-mentioned applications. A bonus would be having an HDMI port, since my current laptop only connects with VGA...
My current laptop is a 2008 model Toshiba Satellite A305-6858 w/ Core 2 Duo T5750 running 2GHz, with 4 gigs of DDR2 and a 500GB 7200rpm HDD. I allocate space to the on-board GPU and it seems to work fine, so I'm not looking for a third-party graphics card. The only problem I'm having is that the hinge broke away from the screen on the right side sometime last year and the damage is getting worse. Now, there's a broken wire sticking out and the screen rarely stays up.
I've tried taking it apart before to fix it, but laptops are frustratingly hard to open to me. I unscrewed everything I could get to, but there was a screw in the middle of the keyboard somewhere near the K that's screwed in internally. It doesn't even make sense. The only other option I have is to try and fix this, but I have no idea how. If anyone could optionally give me some instructions, I'd be grateful for that as well. Thanks!
I'm looking for a work laptop that I can use in conjunction with Visual Studio, Eclipse, Photoshop, and Maya for game development and software programming. But since I already have a new 2.5" drive, I don't need one of the complete laptops you'd buy in stores. My price range is around $600, but I need something good enough for the previously-mentioned applications. A bonus would be having an HDMI port, since my current laptop only connects with VGA...
My current laptop is a 2008 model Toshiba Satellite A305-6858 w/ Core 2 Duo T5750 running 2GHz, with 4 gigs of DDR2 and a 500GB 7200rpm HDD. I allocate space to the on-board GPU and it seems to work fine, so I'm not looking for a third-party graphics card. The only problem I'm having is that the hinge broke away from the screen on the right side sometime last year and the damage is getting worse. Now, there's a broken wire sticking out and the screen rarely stays up.
I've tried taking it apart before to fix it, but laptops are frustratingly hard to open to me. I unscrewed everything I could get to, but there was a screw in the middle of the keyboard somewhere near the K that's screwed in internally. It doesn't even make sense. The only other option I have is to try and fix this, but I have no idea how. If anyone could optionally give me some instructions, I'd be grateful for that as well. Thanks!
