Acadia opened this issue on Apr 19, 2006 · 79 posts
SamTherapy posted Wed, 19 April 2006 at 8:42 PM
UK prices won't be of any use to you but from experience, anything for a laptop costs 25-50% more than the desktop equivalent.
Over here, you would have some protection in law, even after the warranty expired, if the computer had failed within an "unreasonable" time, considering the cost and usage, provided it could be proven that the failure is not due to "misuse, neglect or accidental damage". If you met the conditions, the retailer would be required by law to offer a free of charge repair, or if a repair was not possible, a replacement product or depreciated credit.
I have no idea about consumer law in your part of the world but it may be worth investigating.
As to how I know all this, well I work for "The UK's Largest Electrical Retailer".
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