Hello All,
We have three Dell laptops at home including my husband's work computer and have had no problems with them. However, my husband was trying to fix my niece's Toshiba Laptop a last winter because the fan kept shutting down and the computer would over heat. When he took it into the shop to be repaired, the guy said that the fan was full of dust, lint and stuff. The fan had to be replaced and because of the malfunction and overheating, everything on the computer was lost. The repair guy said that laptop fans are under the machine and the computers only should be used on hard surfaces so the unit doesn't suck in debris. My niece would use it on her bed or on top of a blanket in her lap while watching TV and IMing her friends and such.
I certainly hadn’t heard about that before. Maybe it's what happened with the Dell that exploded.
Anne
