20-05-2016, 07:12 PM
(20-05-2016, 12:48 PM)Toms306 Wrote: Well, sent it back and received a refund and an apologetic ebay message.
I have now purchased and actual genuine one, with a build date sticker of Feb 2016 which is a good start (original was Feb 2013). On full charge it shows around 5 hours, I haven't been able to test that yet but it's lasting significantly longer than both others and hasn't shut itself off at all so far. So this is something where you clearly do get what you pay for!
yeah it does seem that way with PC hardware tom, as a mate of mine said sometimes buying cheap you do end up having trouble. We found that out with a system that needed the ram upgrading from 64mb to 256mb.
the motherboard was the cheapest of the cheapest you could get and it only liked a certain type of ram voltage wise. which was a pain, as we had a load spare at the time.
I think I ended up buying the upgraded stuff from ebay second hand for peanuts.
we thought it might have either been an old windows 98/ME system that had been upgraded to windows XP.
Mind it ran no bother at all, and I have redone the installation a few times for him, until it was retired for a windows 8 laptop last year.