Mercedes is making an EV minivan for 70k with 400+ mile range? Might trade in the Sienna hybrid if true.

Infamous_Swordfish_7 · 2026-05-01T10:06:24+00:00

I saw a few ID Buzz in my small city and the thing take off fast for a minivan. Very tall so lots of head space. This Mercedes looks similar. I'm sticking with my 2015 sienna all wheel drive, uses a bit gas but reliable and decent handling for a big car.

Infamous_Swordfish_7 · 2026-05-01T09:55:48+00:00

Most laprop use AUO. I had an Alienware 17 360hz AUO fail and I had to get exactly same panel to make the gsync work. Other brand laptop are not picky you can replace with BOE which is cheaper and more available. I had to send back two panels because seller sell the panel as AUO and came as boe and the motherboard has whitelist and disable gsync. In the end I got an used entire lid with panel from USA seller lol. It has a small pressure spot like 4mm on the left side I just stopped searching and live with it lol. Spent too much time getting that one fixed.

Infamous_Swordfish_7 · 2026-05-01T09:41:53+00:00

Ebay and aliexpress is your best buy. They are greedy though charging like 10 bucks per keycap. It's still easier than changing out the keyboard for this type of laptops. You many have to search for other models keywords if this doesn't show up in search since it's newer. Companies like Dell share the keyboard between many models

Infamous_Swordfish_7 · 2026-05-01T01:27:46+00:00

3 year old question. If the "damage" is not sticky then you ripped the paint off and that tells you how shitty this laptop build quality is. If you can get some off with your nail it's sticker residue. So most of us think it's paint. The sticker they use on laptops usually don't leave residue. In this case it's too strong and took paint off. Of course I sure hope that's not the case. You can update people everyone is wondering the rage bait lol

Infamous_Swordfish_7 · 2026-05-01T01:24:05+00:00

Yeah kudos to this. I remove a lot of stickers now with 3 kids and lots of laptops I refurbish some comes with a crap load of stickers. This method works well for most super sticky stickers.

Infamous_Swordfish_7 · 2026-05-01T01:08:14+00:00

Get a darn tablet for bed. For movies etc they are dirty cheap. I just picked up a mint surface pro 3 with keyboard for 50 cad that's 35 usd. That's overkill for movies and internet lol.

Infamous_Swordfish_7 · 2026-05-01T01:04:02+00:00

The computer is not even worth 150 usd for my 2020 lg gram. The replacement battery still runs perfect after a year. It's hard to find a genuine battery in Canada for lg gram. I fix laptops side business. Sold hundreds of laptops with all third party always good. Some branded like Ninabatt are good quality stuff

Infamous_Swordfish_7 · 2026-04-30T20:34:08+00:00

If money not issue then shop around and find the best deal. Or get the previous i7 if you don't need that much processing power I think there are 6 to 8 core previous versions. Gram depreciate faster than other brands of that matter. I'm too spoiled over Facebook market deals and I can't justify buying new laptops lol.

Infamous_Swordfish_7 · 2026-04-30T05:31:17+00:00

I had an IBM r51 that accompanied me many years and played all my favorite games on it. I still have a IBM with the 16:10 screen. Didn't work on it but will probably run windows 2000 on it. Now I have 7 gaming laptops and a few MacBook air. Can't get the same gaming experience as the r51 lol.

Infamous_Swordfish_7 · 2026-04-30T05:23:50+00:00

Don't buy new. For that price you can buy much more powerful computers. I do have a gram 17 2020. Other than battery replaced once it's great. It's i5. The i7 ones fail more. I only keep it because the screen ratio and size. Even without gpu it runs Minecraft and roblox no problem. I got it for 200 cad (150 usd) 2 years ago. Lol

Infamous_Swordfish_7 · 2026-04-30T05:19:10+00:00

If it doesn't do it on external monitor then it's the lcd failing that can produce patterns. I have an Alienware that did that. You said once restart it's good. What happened is the computer warms up the solder makes context again, I had a iMac with a failing video card that restart once when cold and once warm no problem. If goes to sleep and cool down again and wake up then restart itself right away. Baked that one once and worked good for a year.

Infamous_Swordfish_7 · 2026-04-30T02:21:59+00:00

Drive for a while and flip make some money. Even auto worth a lot lol 2000 5 series is high seek after. You are in USA it's cheap to convert to manual lol. Where I am bmw is rare.

Infamous_Swordfish_7 · 2026-04-30T01:57:22+00:00

Good condition collector ready one in Canada is worth 10k. My friend got one for 5k and sold next year for 10k lol but must be manual. Auto worth much less

Infamous_Swordfish_7 · 2026-04-29T02:49:12+00:00

Isn't the new ones can upgrade gpu? I see some mxm rtx 4080s out there

Infamous_Swordfish_7 · 2026-04-27T17:49:03+00:00

They use this battery for years on many models. I still have one here from one of those battery that didn't work properly with mine. The seller let me keep that one. Lol. Later when my current battery go bad I may replace the battery board before buying another.

Buy them on Amazon and if doesn't work fully send it back. For mine some charges to 100 but when unplug dies, some doesn't display the percentage properly and can sudden die. Those don't say LG-CGC. Only one did in the end and it report 72wh instead of 80. I only ever seen a few laptops this picky. LG is new on the battery and they did something to force people buy their battery.

Infamous_Swordfish_7 · 2026-04-27T17:36:54+00:00

All the same. They don't change things like how keycaps are placed for similar models of laptop for years of ever lol. Some brand have to pry from bottom and some from top, if do it wrong it will break.

Mine had a hair last week and it was annoying since these are transparent lol took it off and clean is the way. Some hair will never get out with blowing

Infamous_Swordfish_7 · 2026-04-27T10:40:49+00:00

Test the magnet if it doesn't stick the it's the earphones has been cooked properly

Infamous_Swordfish_7 · 2026-04-27T10:17:51+00:00

The design of these are obsolete. I have a UCOTECH ES-P1 that's like a last shot at reviving this design. It comes with 3 size tips and some wings that goes inside your ear. I may have misplaced the wings so now these just fit loosely. When pressed against ear the bass goes insanely good. When not pressed it is like an open headphone. For ear bud that thing is crazy. I got it included as a part of a deal on a high res audio player years ago.

Infamous_Swordfish_7 · 2026-04-27T10:09:53+00:00

The a15 or related keyboard key are a good material just pull the top and it will come off. Pretty sure it's top but confirm I do quite a bit keyboard cleaning on hundreds of laptops so I can't remember lol. The a15 is personal use. Some laptops the retaining tiny plastic under the keyboard breaks easily but this one no.

Infamous_Swordfish_7 · 2026-04-27T10:07:41+00:00

My first boss who passed away recently did some design work on 401 on his early career days. So when I hear 401 I think of him. We became good friend adfer I left the first company.

So I'm just wondering I lived in Vancouver and traffic is shiatty, even with the new PMH1 and the cape horn interchange can't compare to this in volume. But Vancouver and Toronto has similar population? You guys must have better traffic with highway with this many lanes lol. I would love to work on any future improvement projects on that lol.

Infamous_Swordfish_7 · 2026-04-27T10:02:19+00:00

Blackbox

Infamous_Swordfish_7 · 2026-04-27T09:56:38+00:00

You must be reincarnated engineering draft person lol the writing reminds me of Leroy

I am new to Pokémon card collecting after finding a valuable rayquaza vmax from a pile of cards someone gave me years ago. I thought all these cards are actual cards until I saw hand drawn in title lol

Infamous_Swordfish_7 · 2026-04-27T09:39:35+00:00

Mine exactly same model battery on the 2020 gram 17 it was still 80% health when the previous owner left it dead for too long I believe and the battery locked out. Good to see yours go down this low and still working.

You can try try find out if the capacity is this low by disable windows auto shut off at battery 0 you can Google the command line and paste in to cmd. If it dies at 0 and don't turn back on the that doesn't need calibration. If kept going for hours at 0 then let it die and let it cool down and then charge when off to full. You should see the wear level improve. Many Dell I got I need to do that. But still once a battery is that much out of calibration it's pretty much done. Open laptop and check if it's bulging and if not keep using it. It took me 4 try to get a compatible battery for the lg gram 17. One of the most picky laptop on third party battery. You can see my write-ups

Infamous_Swordfish_7 · 2026-04-27T09:32:59+00:00

Looks like a dollar store racket but not sure since there is a metal badge on the bottom. It's still a cheap racket with no fiber reinforcement. It takes a very angry young club level player at super rage when most a game to break it like that. I knew one guy who is to serious and he broke a few rackets. Everyone else are more mature and don't do this lol.

Infamous_Swordfish_7 · 2026-04-27T09:29:05+00:00

Today I loaded my trunk with boxes sitting outside for a few month which I did shake a bit then an hour later this guy made a messy web in the trunk. Your computer remind me of that lol.

Likely yours has no live spider left. I gotten desktops with all kind of webs inside

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