Unlucky Alf
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After an incident where I spilt a glass of wine over my laptop, I can't decide which of the two options above to go with. I have a Dell XPS M1710 which was cutting edge back in 2006 and was still decent until its run in with the wine. It now doesn't start up at all (the power light comes on when the mains/battery are plugged in, as does the num lock LED, and I can hear the hard drive clicking, buts that's all) so the motherboard and possibly the video card are shot.
So Im umming and ahhing over whether to look for a second hand/spare parts M1710 to fix it up with, or buy a new laptop as the 1710 is now getting a bit long in the tooth. I wouldn't want to spend a lot of money as I haven't used it much since getting an ipad, but the ability to do the very occasional bit of light autocad work on it would be useful.
So can anyone help me make my mind up?
So Im umming and ahhing over whether to look for a second hand/spare parts M1710 to fix it up with, or buy a new laptop as the 1710 is now getting a bit long in the tooth. I wouldn't want to spend a lot of money as I haven't used it much since getting an ipad, but the ability to do the very occasional bit of light autocad work on it would be useful.
So can anyone help me make my mind up?