Best place to buy new laptop LCD?

Adam18290 · 2 Sep 2008 at 19:55

Just repairing a broken LCD screen on a friends laptop. Wanted to know where the best place to buy a replacement is. Ive had a look on the bay and cheapest I could find was £165. Bare in mind this is for a 17" LCD.

Thanks

Bradmax57 · 2 Sep 2008 at 20:41

not much help im sure but tbh depending on the spec of your laptop you might be better selling yours as spares and buying a replacement laptop?

However as i understand it, the lcd is the most expensive single component of a laptop so the price might not be so bad? Have you contacted the manufacturer?

Adam18290 · 2 Sep 2008 at 20:59

Its a sony vaio vgn-ar11s - cost about £2k new. By manufacturer you mean sony or the people who make the LCD? (Sharp)

Bradmax57 · 2 Sep 2008 at 21:32

£2k new ok but how long ago

Adam18290 · 2 Sep 2008 at 22:13

Does it matter? All im asking is for the best place to buy. Im not going to throw a 2k laptop away whether it was brought 2 years ago or 6 years ago.

tigerstyle · 3 Sep 2008 at 14:42

Adam18290 said:
Does it matter? All im asking is for the best place to buy. Im not going to throw a 2k laptop away whether it was brought 2 years ago or 6 years ago.

if it cost 2K 6 years ago I'd throw it away as it would be junk!

And the money would be better spent on a new laptop, but look at it like this, if it cost 2K last week and the screen is only £165 to buy, yeah just but it and fit it, whats the fuss? Obviously money isn't a problem!

I doubt Sony would sell you just the screen on the side, but contact them for either an in warranty or out of warranty repair, they'll charge you for the screen +fitting but then will come with a bit of a warranty hopefully!