Calling all laptop computer techs

My sons Tosiba took a crap at 1 1/2 years old. He can hook it up to an external monitor and still use it but the motherboard is toast as far a display is concerned. He looked into fixing it, but for $600 in parts was better for him to buy a new one and sell his old one for parts @ $500. He purchased a Lenovo Think Pad SL500 and so far so good. Tech support is US based so if he needs it maybe it'll be better.???