[ltp] Bad news for us ...

[Don Perley]

David A. Desrosiers wrote:

> Now, I can see if a person had a laptop in need of repair, where parts
> simply were no longer available for it through normal (non-eBay)
> channels, but this laptop was clearly still useful, usable, and just
> needed a new drive and RAM, and could have been fixed without buying a
> whole new laptop. 

"Just needed RAM" is a loaded concept in itself.  In my experience, once 
a memory format is deemed obsolete, manufacturers stop making it.  Once 
supply gets tight, the price skyrockets.

When I looked for a memory upgrade for my then 4 year old tower (a 165 
mhz pentium, I found that for the price of a memory card I could get a 
whole new machine with MORE memory, pentium 4, a good graphics card, DVD 
drive, etc etc.  Compared to stubbornly upgrading the old computer, it 
was essentially paying less for more memory, and getting the rest of a 
new computer for free.

Since the laptop in question was the same age, I can't expect the memory 
situation would be much/any better.