re: #174 RogueOne

A buddy got his new Dell laptop for xmas. It showed up with a bad motherboard. Merry Xmas!

I got a new laptop 2 years ago, the screen flickered continuously. If you’re old enough to remember TVs with Vertical Control and Horizontal Control knobs, it looked as if someone had turned the Horizontal Control knob. So I sent it back.

Telephone rigs a couple of days later, it is So-and-so from HP Quality Control. They have had several laptops opf this model come back with this problem; he wanted my permission to take my computer completely apart and diagnose it to try to find the problem. I told him yes, but added 6 to 8 months to the total repair time in my head. Then he says that as a “Thank You” HP would send me, free of charge, their latest laptop! The nameplate says it is the HP-2007-XX and for a few months, they didn’t have anything comparable online or in the catalog.