My laptop broke. Been using a Dell studio xps for almost 4 years. Been using very heavily with school and games. Roughly on 12-16 hours every day since I got it. My right arrow button broke off just a few hours ago during usage (the plastic piece at least) and now whenever I press the button or any of the buttons near it, the right button acts as if I am holding it down even though you can see the switch and it is not pressed down in any way. My laptop won't load the OS because the button goes off and suddenly on boot up it halts and begins to beep very loudly. I am able to use it now because I figured out that the spamming ends just by pressing any other button that still functions not located near the right arrow button. So I just spammed random keys on boot up and it loaded just fine. Currently I have my external keyboard plugged in and that works fine and I am backing everything up just in case.
My plan is to separate my gaming from my work, so I am going to Fry's tomorrow to hopefully buy a workstation that can run MATLAB and last a long time. Then once my summer break starts I am going to build my own desktop for the purpose of gaming.
So first thing first, does anyone have any tips on my current problem and what is a good work laptop capable of running MATLAB that is built like a tank. Preferably on the few hundred dollar range.
Many thanks to anyone who can help.
EDIT: I am going to take the laptop to a repair place first just so I can confirm that it is a hardware problem with the keyboard, but I would rather still have a separate laptop just for my work and other important tasks.
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