I bought the laptop about 4 or 5 years ago for $1200-$1300 and it's in the shop right now and they said it'd be about $150 to fix (although I'd lose all my own files on the hard drive). Before it wouldn't access the desktop, a screen pulled up saying something like hard drive not found.
Would I be better off getting a used laptop or PC for $150 or less or just fix the 1747?