The ultimate irony
 

my battery died in my laptop a few days ago, so I order a new one

I get it today and pop that sucker in, it charges to about 40% and POOF a puff of smoke comes from my power supply

my power supply dies 25 minutes after getting a new battery

irony

luckily i have an older power supply, but it is all ghetto, I have to hold the cord a certain way for it to work...LOL

wtf, how old is your laptop?

like 2 years old or somewhere around there

i don't mind the battery dying, but this is the 9th power cord I have been through

wow that sucks, what kind of laptop?

emachines m5310

that sucks. I had to replace my battery pack deal after about 3 weeks. now my battery hardly stays charged but it works fine if it is plugged into the wall.

emachine, i hear nothing but problems with them

Jeez that sounds like something that would happen to me...

i have had nothing but luck with this model, their desktops are horrible, but this series of laptops was great before they discontinued it

FYI, emachines is the manufacturer of most laptops...in fact gateway owns them...but they manufacture laptops for some of the largest laptop companies in the world

this one I have has ALL brand name components...I opened it up and there is not one generic piece inside, unlike dell who uses the cheapest parts they can find

actually I need to rephrase what I said....emachines WAS one of the largest manufacturers of laptops until gateway bought them out

I dated a guy who owned a computer repair shop. He LOVED emachines. He said the power supply being replaced was pretty much a given.

yeah, they basically a budget computer with brand name parts...you can buy any of their base models for $400 and spend about $200 more in upgrades and have a computer that dell would sell for $900-1000

haha, i am so ghetto now
I took the blowup power supply and spliced it with the working but ghetto cord one and got a fully functional one :)