which is the lifespan of a lap top's screen?
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With LCD screens, the normal lifespan is about 50,000 hours which gives you about 5 years unless you try to clean it with a knife
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I use a laptop and seldom switch it off.Usually like for and hour or two in a week..But it runs perfect and is not slow at all..I live in canada and tend to keep my window open ..Now it is winter and I havent switched off my notebook for 1 week..The room temperature has been varying between -2 to +2 degree C..depending on the time of the day..
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The Toshiba Satellite is a very poor choice when considering the wide spectrum of choices avalible for budget laptops.\n\nThe battery life of the L25 is only 95 minutes, according to Cnet.com, which is a very small number in today's market.  Furthermore, the battery life won't last long enough to watch a dvd movie, which is a major factor to consider if you are going to dish out 700 for a laptop.\n\nIf you are looking for a bare minimum no frill laptop, I recommend Dell, where you can equipt a cheaper laptop which has more features, especially if you wait for a special deal.
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The problem isn't the screens breaking. I actuallkty watched an endurancxe test of a nano the day they were released and after throwing it on the ground and throwing it out a moving car it still worked fine. the screen didn't quit working until they ran it over with the car. However... the screens scratch VEREY easily. If you get a nano, you should buy a protective case for it at your nearest Apple store or computer supply store.
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Actually the lifespan is about equal and all depends on how well you care for your monitor and use it.  I've seen old white IBM monitors outlast LCDs strictly because they were kept dust free, not used very often, and in general just well kept.  On the flipside, I've seen CRTs go out within a year's time (personal experience) compared to the 5 years an LCD has lasted me thus far.  Again, it all goes to how much you use it and how well you care for it.\n\nLCDs are prone to damage, like any electronic device, if you misuse it.
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for Lap tops the biggest killer that's not a normally 'replaceable' part (batteries are replaceable....as are Hard drives, cd drives, floppy drives.....lol damn near everything lately !) is the LCD Backlight.  the Thin Film Transister LCD display back-light is the weakest part of a laptop....IMO.\n\n\nYou see LCD technology does not itself emit light. you either must have enough ambiant light to see, or it must be 'back-lit'.  The Technology formmerly used to do this was CCFL or Cold Cathode Forescent Lamp, these failed in 2 different ways as they aged.\n\n1. the light would get darker as it aged. Some would even change color therby messing-up the colors the display rendered.\n\nand\n\n2. As the bulb ages, it requires more and more power to engergize it.  Eventually it will reach a point where the amperage required to start the lamp, will exceed the capacity the circut it is on can provide and simply not light.\n\nIf you've ever seen this, or suspect that this is your problem (display won't light, or goes dark shortly after starting,) simply shine a bright light source directly into the display, you should see faintly whatever the desktop was diplaying at the time.....or your desktop if it never came on to begin with.\n\nCurrent Backlight technology uses white LED lights....far better.\nthe BEST ones use 3 LED lights....1 each of Red Blue and Green, much much better at displaying the full color spectrum.
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LCD screens are very delicate. Once they are scratched thats it. I use a screen protector for my PDA, but would be way too hard to install on a laptop!
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Over the ten years that we have purchased 20,000+ used laptops our techs have found IBM and Toshiba to be the most reliable and the easiest to work on.  I personally have been buying Toshiba laptop for fifteen years and have good luck with them.
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if you want a hardworking laptop\nnot thing beats IBM ( now Lenevo)\nall the computer enginner companies buys them for the workers, they are not that "pretty" but very durable both physically and computerly( they don't "die" easily, they hardly die at all, compare to dell, sony, hp, toshiba)
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There's no reason a laptop shouldn't be as reliable as a desk top if you take reasonable care of it.   But for the same power (memory, processor speed, disk size and speed), it will certainly be more expensive.\n\nYou can have internet everywhere there is WiFi available, and for extra money, you can get a wireless modem that connects to one of the cell phone data services.\n\nIf portability isn't important to you, you're probably better off getting a desktop machine.  You should be able to use your current display with it and avoid having to buy a new one, assuming you're happy with it.\n\nYou can buy used laptops, if you decide to go that way, on eBay, assuming you trust that sort of thing.
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Newer ones last about 5 years due to the maufactuers trying to make loads in a short space of time.\n\nI have had a 2gb hard drive since 1996 and it is still working!!!
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I would sugest looking on Ebay for comparitive bids.\nYou can bookmark the auctions and see what they end at.\n\nI the screen wasn't scratched, the screen was bright, you had the restore cd.s (or restore partition intact) and manuals I would say a easy $850\n\nI wish the hard drive was a tad bigger for the price.\nMost nicer systems like yours have 80, 100 or 120 gb.
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Pretty vague...\n\nWith 100% charge if I play something like Battlefield 2 with my speakers and a wireless mouse I get under 30 minutes before first warnings.  That's 100% screen brightness too.\n\nIt never goes above 1.5 hours unless I do nothing but type in word with the brightness low and no sound or cd's running.
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um most pcs will run theirs down in 5 years but i have seen them last UPTO 7 years chances are you will throw your comp out before it dies
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What I have always been told is that the battery that comes with the laptops, are bottom of the line batteries.  You can get the model number from the battery and either go directly to fuji, or search online for a replacement battery. \n\nThey are expensive I know that, but the replacement batteries seem to be better quality. \n\nI know there are alot of batteries out there that dont mind if you recharge them even if they are not used, but a laptop battery stays longer if you completely use the battery, then recharge it.\n\nI think the longest battery life for a lap top that I have seen is like 4 1/2 hours.  I just can't imagine a battery lasting 11 hours, unless there was a dual battery.
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Depends upon how critical the laptop is in your situation.  In most cases I would not buy it.  Usually they cost about 15% of the original list price of the laptop for each years extended warrranty.  \n\nA small percentage of the laptops have hardware related failures.  The odds are in your favor unless you drop it or travel with it a lot.  If you can write it off as a business expense that might make the cost more appealing.\n\nSo, figure out how much it will cost and figure in 2-3 years new laptops will most likely be less expensive or at least the same price with more features.  In most cases, unless the laptop is critical to your day-to-day business I would not spend the money.
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I used to work for a component manufacturer who designed a number of the internal parts for many of the major vendors HDDs, this is what I was told:\n\nThe average service life of a hard disk is usually given as "5 years or 20,000 hours." This means if a hard disk operates 24 hours a day, you will need to replace your drive with a new one every 1.5 to 2 years. (For specification details, refer to your hard disk drive's user manual.)\n\nThe measure of service life used by most hard disk manufacturers is "mean time between failures" (MTBF)*1 (usually quoted at between 300,000 to 500,000 hours). The ratings (for expected service life) used by PC makers are more conservative, as they are based more closely on "real world" usage conditions. Since expected service life and MTBF figures can differ by hundreds of thousands of hours, we recommend you use the expected service life value. For example, the usual service life of a 2.5 inch drive will be almost 5 years or 20,000 hours, if used at the temperatures specified for your PL. However, if a drive is operated continuously, i.e. 24 hours a day, its service life will be shorter.\n\nFor more information refer to the sources below.