A New Era

Tuesday night I partially closed my laptop to get something off of the table behind it, and the hinge crackled and partially broke!  I brought an old PC in from the garage and chatted with Dell. Apparently they only offer hardware support for up to 4 years (the old PC was 4 years and 123 days old, and the Dell tech said that in the chat). Truthfully, the PC is not usable.  The only solution Dell had was to send it to be fixed, It would cost $40-$60 for them to even diagnose it, then on top of that I would have to pay for the repair. Not knowing how much it would cost in the end, I started looking at PCs at Walmart. I’ve always ordered my laptops from Dell, so this was a new experience.

The local Walmart had a couple in my price range. The one I wound up getting it Lenovo ThinkPad 1 AMN7. It’s quite a bit slimmer than my Dell (and lighter). I had to find a workaround for the USB ports (technically I need 3 and this only has 2, but with the aid of a USB to USB-C adapter (I have 3), I turned my USB-C port into a USB (this is where I keep my bluetooth mouse’s receiver).

This is the PC I got: Lenovo ThinkPad

Yes, there are a few differences, but so far, I’m loving it.