Next, check the wires for damage and try a different charger or cable.
#Apple dvd player grey screen movie
Thinking back to my Dell Inspiron 1525, the fact that I could pop in a movie whenever I wanted to or install games or programs or burn CDs gave me so much more flexibility. Also, they no longer double as DVD players, which is a travesty. We can argue the many reasons why this particular feature was phased out, but the fact is this design choice severely limits what a laptop is capable of and restricts it to digital-only products and downloads. But there’s no way to find a laptop with a drive at all. Sure, it’s great to have ultra-thin laptops that are easy to carry around, since more variety addresses more needs. Remember when I mentioned that one of the main causes of the 1525’s weight was the optical drive? I wish that was a common issue with modern-day laptops. Lesson two: due diligence goes a long way I miss built-in optical drives The positive is that this greatly increased the wattage and therefore the battery life, but the downside was that now I had a battery that jutted out of the back. So I learned it the hard way.Īt one point the battery also failed on me, and I had to purchase and then have installed a brand new one. But past Allisa never looked into this because she didn’t understand how important this sort of build issue was.
Apparently, this was because the 1525 used a single heatsink, which wasn’t abnormal but this model was the most common one with that issue. As in do not have this laptop on your lap unless you like it to be very toasty.
I also realized very quickly that this laptop got very hot, very rapidly. Luckily this issue was mostly fixed through the university techs replacing the whole piece. They stopped opening properly to the point that it would lift part of the back plate off the rest of the laptop whenever I opened it. However, this came with its own issues, something I hadn't anticipated or planned for.Ībout two years into my ownership, I realized that the hinges were a bit…off. Considering the average life cycle for a laptop nowadays is about three to five years, Madeline literally ran circles around lesser laptops. Ol' Madeline gave me about ten years of useful life before conking out, something I don't even think the best laptop in the world could really do nowadays, so she was a tough old girl. Lesson one: make sure that the screen size and weight suit your needs. But regardless, I should have spent more time researching my purchase, and I could have saved my self a lot of backache. Unfortunately, Chromebooks didn’t exist until after I left college so that wasn’t an option. With the latter, I wouldn’t be able to notetake but it would make for a more stable machine with a much longer shelf life.
#Apple dvd player grey screen portable
Instead, my focus should have been on finding a more portable laptop or, even better, a home PC. And considering that most of my use for this laptop was mundane, it was completely unnecessary to be carrying around a six-pound paper writing machine. What made it even bulkier was the 15.4-inch screen, which increased the size quite a bit and most likely contributed to the weight along with the optic drive.
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