Notebook: Cracked LCD Screen

[Kilgore Trout]

I dropped my notebook case on the floor and it caused the screen to develop a crack and a kind of black ink is smearing all over LCD from inside.

I took it in to the store and replacement price is 285. plus tax on a 12.1" Asus notebook that only costed 299. plus tax in the first place when I bought it new 8 months ago.

Just wondering if anyone knows some independant retail outlet that can replace screen at a better price.
Thanks.

 

[djk]

It doesn't make good economic sense. Especially on a netbook as it sounds that's what it is.

 

[onthebottom]

Backup and replace....

You can plug a cheap monitor into it and use it as a desktop....

 

[Kilgore Trout]

Backup and replace....

You can plug a cheap monitor into it and use it as a desktop....

Yea, that's what I was thinking.
You'd think the market would let you fix a cracked screen for 50% of what the thing costs new; but, that's not the way things are in the netbook world.

 

[onthebottom]

Yea, that's what I was thinking.
You'd think the market would let you fix a cracked screen for 50% of what the thing costs new; but, that's not the way things are in the netbook world.

Disposable computing.....

 

[WoodPeckr]

Disposable computing.....

Something Apple has championed with their plethora of nanos, iPods, iPads, iPhones, etc.....:eyebrows:

 

[OddSox]

http://www.torontomacbookscreenrepair.ca - I think they also do other brands.