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    keyboard breaks?

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by fafan111, May 31, 2005.

  1. fafan111

    fafan111 Notebook Consultant

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    Yea, does the laptop keyboard break often?

    I'm playing this game called Tales of Phantasia on my laptop and I do alot of pressing the 'z' button... I'm worried it might break or something if i do that like million times

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    That is good to hear my dog has already broke 2!

    I9300 2.0ghz 1.0gb ram 100gb disk 256MB NVIDIA 6800 dvd rw UXGA Bluetooth Intel WiFi Media Center
     
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    well mine did in the first month, but my PDA dropped on it. In my opinion, they keyboards are a little cheap and probably do break easily.

    Good news: If something should happen and you do have to replace it, it is covered under warranty and its an easy do-it-yourself thing. Dell will send you a replacement within 2 days of requesting it, and it comes with all the necessary tools and instructions. It took about 10mins. to change it out.

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    <blockquote id='quote'> quote:<hr height='1' noshade id='quote'>Originally posted by SouthernGirl
     
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    I believe it is covered under just the regular warranty (although they might not be so willing to replace it for free if they found out that there was excessive use of the "z" key)

    If not, you should be able to get the keyboard for about 20 bucks (at least that's how much it cost on mine if I had not sent it back).

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