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It's either that or sending your laptop off to MSI for RMA, wait 6 weeks, only to be told by some overseas repair person that it's fine and you get stuck in a never ending loop with a $2,600 piece of plastic.

I liked Dells customer support, part sent to me via Toll priority, booked in with repairman, repairman comes to address I specified and fixes it. I sent off old part >_>. Would've been nicer if it wasn't chewing through hard drives and power plugs though.

I noticed a sign at centercom saying 25% restocking fee if you change your mind....There's no way I'm paying over $600 to give back a piece of shit...

I'll call them tomorrow and see what my options are....I'm guessing they're just gonna tell me it's too bad

I noticed a sign at centercom saying 25% restocking fee if you change your mind....There's no way I'm paying over $600 to give back a piece of shit...

I'll call them tomorrow and see what my options are....I'm guessing they're just gonna tell me it's too bad

https://www.accc.gov.au/consumers/consumer-rights-guarantees/repair-replace-refund

A product or good has a major problem when:

  • it has a problem that would have stopped someone from buying it if they’d known about it
  • it is unsafe
  • it is significantly different from the sample or description
  • it doesn’t do what the business said it would, or what you asked for and can’t easily be fixed.

Point one would be my best hope, maybe point 4 but they didn't really say 'it will connect to wifi with a decent speed like your 5 year old laptop which cost half as much'

See if you can just trade it straight for this:

http://www.centrecom.com.au/asus-g550jk-cn436h-156-led-intel-core-i7-4710hq-16gb-ram-256gb-ssd-gtx850m-4gb-dedicated-graphics-blu-ray-rw-windows-81

It was originally $2,600 so I guess you can think of it as trading without losing out. Slightly lower specs but a much better overall laptop.

http://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/449788-vic-1996-nissan-skyline-r33-6000-ono/#entry7410297

Battery relocated to boot

Do people even know what they are talking about when they write their for sale ads...better off just saying the km, a price and some pics.

http://www.sau.com.au/forums/topic/449788-vic-1996-nissan-skyline-r33-6000-ono/#entry7410297

Battery relocated to boot

Do people even know what they are talking about when they write their for sale ads...better off just saying the km, a price and some pics.

I relocated the battery to the boot in my 4 door...

See if you can just trade it straight for this:

http://www.centrecom.com.au/asus-g550jk-cn436h-156-led-intel-core-i7-4710hq-16gb-ram-256gb-ssd-gtx850m-4gb-dedicated-graphics-blu-ray-rw-windows-81

It was originally $2,600 so I guess you can think of it as trading without losing out. Slightly lower specs but a much better overall laptop.

What's lower spec about it? The CPU and ram look like they're the same.. 256ssd same, no 1tb had though..

Graphics card not as good?

Display?

I don't think I should have to swap row a cheaper model considering the msi doesn't work properly... I'll see what they say today... I'd even spend a little more than the $2550 I already did if it's the difference between the next model up etc..

so only place I could find the drivers I'm running were dell site, (even though on lenovo)

but worth giving them a try

http://www.dell.com/support/home/us/en/19/Drivers/DriversDetails?driverId=3HY1C

You have the same wifi card?

Man you're 35, grow up...

no

when you have people like Hamish recommending laptops there's something wrong haha

nice try genius... but I actually never recommended a laptop.

You have the same wifi card?

http://forums.whirlpool.net.au/archive/2241695

Apparently the top of the range ASUS come with the same card so whichever knob juggling thunder kent told you that you should've bought an ASUS instead is talking out of their ass.

Anyway, issue seems to be with the card's inability to stay on a single radio band. Looks like removing all the intel drivers and letting Microsoft default drivers install helps. Otherwise pull the card out of the expansion slot and install another wifi card that does 5ghz 2.4ghz and Bluetooth. They're like $50 tops.

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