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| Samsung R70 |
The Samsung laptop was just a few months old, and I spent a lot of money on the latest technology. I was paying installments each month for one year, so buying another computer was not an option.
I tried different distributions and different settings for each distribution. Nothing worked, so I parked the idea. But it was still in my head, so after a few weeks reading more about it, I tried again until the system booted successfully. I saw the Apple logo appear on the screen, I couldn't believe it, I was really excited.
I still had to solve some problems thought, like the keyboard and touch pad weren't detected, sound and microphone weren't working... I had to find patches and workarounds. I bought an expensive PCMCIA card that the system detected as Airport to have wifi. It did a very good "hackintosh", and I liked to work with that system so much that I ended buying the real thing. Thanks Apple for the trial!
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| nVidia chip |
The Samsung laptop worked well until the fourth year, then problems with the graphics started. It was hit by the nVidia defect. It was out of guarantee. If I wanted to fix it, I needed to replace the main board, that was a expensive reparation and the problem will appear again in the future. Contacting Samsung's customer service didn't help. Now it is just an expensive Samsung branded paperweight.
