My neighbour (a pensioner) asked my partner to 'fix' his laptop. It apparently worked for about a month and then crapped out. He bought it on Amazon for about £200 and the brand is 'Morostron'.
Needless to say I will tell him to change all his passwords and pin numbers but I am just so mystified. I can't even find these components anywhere online. I'm hoping he'll let me pull up those copper bits to see what's under them. How did this even operate?
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Amazon junk. Basically runs similar processors to what you’d see in a mobile device like a tablet or a phone. I’m surprised it even has external storage on the SSD, rather than something soldered on.
Its a modern Craptop, literally a paste your company name here product
We call it e-waste around here
The actual computer bit of it is under the copper cover. I’ve had a number of these on the bench, they seem to be really cheap, £125-£150 gets you one from shady phone-shop sellers.
Typical spec is 4 GB RAM, 64 GB eMMC onboard and a 128 GB SATA M.2 SSD. The display’s utterly awful, but usually at least 1920×1080.
CPU on the three I’ve seen was a Celeron N4100, so four pre-Alder Lake E-cores and nothing else. Nothing can be upgraded except the SSD and they used dodgily-activated Windows 11, though I never found anything untoward on any of them and it was a basic “out of the box” Win11.
It be a low power Celron/n100 looking at it its a tad more advanced than your run of the mill shitetop, it has a nvme slot. Good for a running a few tabs in chrome, wating netflix, few word docs, very light gaming as in minesweeper/solitair.
from my eyes the worst laptop design i’ve ever seen like are the hiding the motherboard and that cooper pipes to transfer hear is square not transferring it to a small fan plus where’s the mobile gpu?
My guess is its an anagram for ‘moronsrot’, ‘srot’ being a shortening for the german word “schrott”, aka ‘trash’.
Its ‘morontrash’.
A POS
It appears to run on some form of electricity
moronstron…
this is just ewaste.
the motherboard is fully covered by those copper sheets.
everything is soldered.
nothing can be done sadly.
Cheap (I hope) Chinese laptop
I feel bad for people who don’t know better and buy crap like this. I got a cheapo Lenovo laptop for traveling a while back for just $500. There’s cheaper ones that would at least outdo this for $250
Ah, I saw a few like that. It’s e-waste, nothing more.
The copper plate acts as thermal mass to cool the horrendous cpu. The motherboard is under there.
At least there’s an SSD, the one I’ve seen had eMMC storage, needless to say it was very sluggish and ofc you couldn’t add storage, not that it mattered, the pc wouldn’t live long enough anyway.
If your neighbor is looking for a new PC, help him get a second hand business laptop, for 200 bucks you can get a really solid machine depending on where you live. Think Lenovo Thinkpad, Dell Latitude or HP Probook. Those will last and be so much better than anything 200£ gets you new.
This is why you do not buy electronics on amazon, even from official sellers.
Looks like Temu Chromebook made from the parts that the factories couldn’t pass through Quality Assurance.
A ‘clever’ gal at the office bought the same brand laptop with a celeron and 4 gigs of ram. And w10.
Just worked for 2 months.
Give your neighbour this advice,
If you are needing a reliable cheap laptop, most ThinkPads running windows 10 will work and be a lot more reliable and cheaper.
As for the PC it’s just a parts bin special, something to stick a label on for the sake of views, sale history and to bloat some numbers.
I’m kinda interested in how that m.2 has been attached. I assume that’s to see me kinda of pcie attachment?
Basically E-Waste
A Chinese crock of shit.
Your neighbour bought some bullshit
Gently please.
[https://morostron.com/](https://morostron.com/)
IDK this was what popped up in search.
Unreal crap.
Ryzen 4070
People need to get off buying these cheapo laptops and go back to desktops. I’m my experience these get left at a desk for use anyway. You can’t get anything decent on laptop for this price. He could have got a very serviceable office scrap desktop for same money.
there’s barely a laptop in there