2/5

posted May-07-2007

Well, I've had my "Sting 917" laptop for 1.5 years now. I've waited this long to write a review because I never really felt inspired to, until now.

Recently, my computer has suffered some serious issues like, poor performance and stability issues. Since my laptop is beyond the one year warranty I've always just fixed the problem myself. It's actually great practice for me seeing as how I'm an IT student working towards my A+ cert. later this year. Anyway.

A long story short, about two weeks ago my laptop wouldn't even boot up to the OS. It would pass POST fine, however, when startup BIOS looked for the OS it found NONE. In fact the error message was "Operating System Not Found."

I tried replacing the hard drive, that didn't work, I tried switching out RAM, that didn't work. I tried rebuilding the MBR, that didn't work. Well, in my frustration, I brought my comp. to school and had one of my teachers help. It turns out that most likely, the motherboard is dying, hence the random errors and now... death.

Being a student, I can't afford to buy a new laptop / computer. However, as an IT student I desperately need a computer to run my programs. I'm stuck now with a dead 3200 dollar laptop that my aunt is still paying for. It's amazing that such a "high grade" laptop would die so swiftly.

The problem: judging by Widow's rarely updated website I doubt there's anything anyone is capable of doing. In fact, the website is so out-dated that they mention a "massive" 100gb SATA(!) hard drive as being cutting edge. That was true two years ago. Now cutting edge is an internal terrabyte HD. You get the picture.

If Widow PC is still around I hope they read this. Also, I hope anyone who reads this should take into consideration the long time support that would be offered by indie brands like Widow.

Luckily for me, I now have the world's most expensive (and large) paperweight.

-Jeremy.

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