Check this out, independent research by a company that provides warranty repair on laptops. It’s a failure rate of the major manufacturers in the industry, surprise surprise HP are the worst!
Laptop failure rates
The amount of HP’s I see with dodgy motherboard faults is increasing. I do like HP’s but after the amount I’ve seen in the past year I would stay away from purchasing an HP laptop. I do recommend Dell as they usually have good prices and if something should go wrong they are easily fixed.
To be fair Toshiba, Dell and Sony laptops we see the least of at Laptop Repair Birmingham. Of course these figures are not completely accurate as there are more Dell and HP laptops out in the wild compared to Leveno and Asus, also the figures are US based it seems. Computer shops here in the UK like PC World and Currys have their own brand, Packard Bell.
Hopefully this graph and the comments I’ve made make choosing a laptop an easier choice out there for someone reading this. As has been mentioned on this website, Laptop Repair Birmingham try to offer more than one solution, so it seems we recommend more than one laptop manufacturer.
Just a word of warning for all laptop users that have locks on their laptops. That they can easily be picked using a bit of toilet roll! Check out this video to see what I mean.
As you can see from our recent post we cover a large area within Birmingham. Notebooks are another name used for laptops. The name tends to be commonly used in America. Netbooks are also a similar name for laptops/notebooks. However netbooks can be identified as they uusually are smaller than your usual standard size notebook.
Netbooks usually do not have optical drives for example a CD or DVD reader/writer. This is one of the main things you should consider if yo are purchasing a netbook as you may quite often use CDs or DVDs and without a drive inside your computer then a netbook may not be an ideal choice.
There are however options to this which include an external optical drive, they usually connect via USB to your computer and are independantly powered by a power supply. this adds a certain amount of clutter onto your desk and might not be ideal. Then your best solution would be a standard notebook.
If you have old notebooks we can usually upgrade them and flush the system out. This will improve the speed of your netbook/notebook/laptop. Quite often when you purchase a laptop from a shop they install software that can slow your laptop computer down. Things like antivirus will slow your system down and some anti virus tends to be worse than others.
Other limitations of pre-installed software can include un-nessescary software that the Windows operating system already can do. this includes wireless tools and power conservation tools. Quite often manufactures will install there own version of this software when in fact the utility is already built into windows. This can often cause a system to slow down as more software has to be loaded on start-up/boot that is required and this will utilise not only time loading but a portion of system memory quite often referred to as RAM (random access memory)
Hope this post provides some useful insight. I will be updating on a daily basis in the hope that we reach 1st page on google by summer.
Quite often we get calls about damaged laptop displays. Displays can usually happen if a laptop is dropped, stood on or picked up by the screen. It can also occur when something is dropped on the laptop itself. Occasionally there can be a screen failure and the screen will go very dim or show no sighs of life at all.
We provide a screen swap out service. This includes a brand new laptop screen in either a matt or glossy finish ordered to fit your laptop. Laptop screens to vary in size and resolution so it is impornant that the correct LCD screen is ordered up, we take care of this as well as swapping the laptop screen out and getting your laptop up and running as it was before the fault had arisen.
Laptop screen replacement takes no more than 1 hour of an engineers time and we quote on an hourly basis plus the price of the new screen. In the majority of cases this our screen swap out service is cheaper than the excess that a home insurance or accidental damage policy will charge.
This benifits both the cusomter and Laptop Repair Brimigham as we can ofer a value for money service and save you the hassle of having to claim against your home insuance policy.
If you have a faulty laptop screen in Birmingham area please get in touch today for a quote.
Welcome to Laptop Repair Birmingham we repair laptops in the Birmingham area. Check out our services and other pages, we offer all types of laptop repair services and maintenance in the Birmingham area.
We quite often see dead laptops, when you press the power button nothing happens or the lights will go on for a few seconds then turn off. Laptop repair birmingham do offer a service to fix dead laptops. They issue is usually caused by a faulty motherboard component. This can be re-soldered/replaced. Some time is involved in repairing such laptop problems however the benefits out weigh the time as the components are cheap compared to swapping out for a completely new motherboard – which can sometimes cost more than a new laptop.
Please call now for a quote if you are experiencing an issue like this. We deal with many laptop repair maintenance issues and services in the Birmingham area.
Touch screen laptops have been out for a while now and we’ve fixed a few cracked screens at laptop repair Birmingham. This basically includes removing the smashed glass and replacing with a new screen. HP have had touch screen laptops on the market for sometime, known as tablet PCs. Apple has just given a press release about the iPad, which is basically an over sized iPhone without the phone functionality.
What we’d really like to see is a PC based iPad that has inbuilt wireless HDMI. This would kill the competition! Imagine having a PC running Windows 7 that was touch screen, with a gesture on your screen you could display the image on your flat screen TV/ projector. This would be such a handy thing!
Anyway back to laptop repair Birmingham we repair all makes of laptops as well as touch screen displays and net books.
Here at laptop repair Birmingham we recommend Microsoft Windows 7. This is the new operating system to replace Windows Vista. It looks very similar to Windows Vista. However here at laptop repair Birmingham we’ve found that Windows 7 runs a lot faster on laptops compared to Windows Vista. One of the main issues with Windows vista was that it used to use a lot of the hard disk drive capacity and was always writing and reading from the hard drive in a laptop. As we’ve learned here at laptop repair Birmingham laptop hard drives are a lot slower compared to hard drives in regular desktop machines. This was a big bottle neck however Windows 7 takes care of this issue. So if your computer is a few years old and fancy a speed boost give us a call at laptop repair Birmingham where we can upgrade your machine to the latest Microsoft operating system.
Have started to hear bad things about Advent laptops. We do laptop repair in Birmingham and have had a couple of brand new advents come through our doors. These are suaully purchased at PC world or Currys. Anyway there seems to be an issue with the fans in them. The stop working and the laptop cuts out due to heat issues. If you have a laptop repair in Birmingham due to this problem check youir warranty as you might be able to get it fixed for free under warranty.
