How long do you think is the average lifespan of the G73?

I keep my G73 on my desk 98% of the time.

I don't play really demanding games like Crysis or anything just like TF2 and L4D2.

How long do you think it will last hardware wise?

 

If you keep it clean and dust free maybe 8-10 years, or until you get a replacement whichever comes first.

 

Yeah. Most high-end computers will last you a long time if you take care of them. Heck, even budget model computers will last a while.

I think the CMOS battery will die after a few years without use, that usually happens with most old laptops that are still around.

People still own their laptops from the early and late 90's, so if you take care of it, expect longevity.

 

Alright thats cool.

So it will become outdated before it blows up.

 

Some parts might go bad like a Harddrive,Battery will not hold a charge or a stick of RAM go's kaput, but as far as blowing up ? yeah i would not worry yourself about that one lol...

 

I didn't literally mean blowing up.

I meant just dying.

 

many laptops don't use a CMOS battery, hey store the password and BIOS data on flash memory , that's why cmospwn doesnt work and you either need a backdoor password (which is not general) or a replacement flash ROM, so no worries about that

 

within 10 years 1 or 2 pixels might die.

But yeah it should be outdated before anything major happens.

Can you give me an example of one?

How could your notebook remember the time without a CMOS battery?

 

My M1730 used to work 15 hours a day severely overvolted.

For a year.

It's still working its way around.

 

It's a small circular battery thats located usually close to your PCI slots. Thats why when you remove the power source (be it AC or battery), the internal clock is kept running by it.

The best example I can give, if you've ever owned a PSP that ran off of a pandora battery. The battery itself was capable of holding a kernel for temporary memory storage. I believe a cmos battery shares the same concept.

When I left my dv8t without a power source for a day, it manage to keep track of time and date.

 

I'm not stupid, I know what one is

I am trying to prove that all notebooks have one. See the post I quoted.

rorage said many laptops don't use one, and I asked for an example of a notebook that doesn't have one.

 

my bad, I misread.

 

Ive never had a laptop die on me, but ive never owned one over 3 years and a high-end one is being replaced on a 1,5 year basis.
But none had a GPU run in the 90C range.

 

And I know for a fact that the G73 motherboard has a CMOS battery.

 

I think it depends on what he means by how long will it last. I've owned 7 laptops over the last 4 years, out of those 7 laptops, 4 have needed to be sent off for factory repairs. My 5 month old HP has gone off 2 times for a total of 3 motherboard replacements. That's 400 dollars a pop if I wasn't under warranty.

My Sager gaming notebook, had 5 repairs the first year, three was for blown GPU's and one was a motherboard. I can't remember what the last one was. But it was a hot system and heat was killing it pretty fast.

If your wondering about if you should or shouldn't get a service warranty, get the contract. I'll be putting a 3 year squaretrade warranty on mine. After 3 years I won't care if it fails, I'm sure I'll be ready for a new gaming notebook by then.

Call me Paranoid, but I like to be safe since I seem to keep getting turds

 

In my experience, most notebooks vastly outlive their usefulness. Some have been trouble though. You can never really tell how things will go.

 

Sager gaming laptop? I guess you really do like your gaming

 

Which sager was that? One with the 8xxx nvidia GPUs?