My Asus G750 gaming laptop is now officially dead ...!

[m654321]

Really disapointing as these laptops are really expensive - the 17" one I had was ~ £1200 - never again - I think I'll go for a Raspberry pi instead, LOL  :

Sorry to hear that, maybe the manufacturer would not like to have adverse publicity - understand?

Raspberry Pi is very versatile! I've had one running unfailing as a personal server since the B+ became available. May play with the Pi 3 soon!

Yeh sure, I certainly do understand - yesterday I changed my 4-star rated review on Amazon to the minimum 1-star rating, with reasons. It's ironic that the 12 year-old Dell Lattitude D630, which I bought used for £70 (see [4] in signature), is still going strong and shows no sign of giving up! So I certainly have mileage with the Dell though, unlike the Asus, it's not suited for gaming, but it's great for all the usual admin, internet browsing and watching youtube videos.

You're right the Raspberry pi is very versatile! What do you use your B+ for?

I actually do have a pi, the 3B model, which has the 4 x 1.2GHz CPU, and used it to upgrade our telly to be internet accessible and access a large archive of videos on an external HDD attached to the pi. We use the excellent LibreElec open-source operating system for this. The pi was a superb investment for upgrading our TV - only £35 - certainly cheaper than buying a brand new shiny internet-ready TV! The more recent 3B+ model is 4 x 1.4GHz CPU, but I might wait and see if they up the CPU power for one of the future pi releases, before considering another pi purchase ...

The only other reservation is that Linux Lite wont run on a pi  , though some other Linux OSes will.

Cheers
Mike