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Help Me, Laptop: Can I Alter My Own Bombardment?

Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Our laptops must eventually return to the great assembly line in the sky. (Or, if you lot're responsible, you recycle it). But this week, reader oscarandmutley is trying to proceed their machine going.

The reader wrote that afterward using their machine for ten minutes, it turns off. So the question is: After seven years, do they demand a new laptop?

Probably. 7 years is a long time for a notebook, and there's newer, better engineering out there. Displays are ameliorate, CPUs are more than powerful, and, heck, you're probably a few operating systems out of date.

But OK, you like your current ane, so permit's take it to its logical farthermost. In theory, you may exist able to supercede the bombardment, especially on a laptop that's 7 years old. While more and more laptop vendors are making it increasingly difficult to replace parts, older and larger machines often get in like shooting fish in a barrel to swap out parts.

Oscarandmutley didn't tell us which laptop they currently own, so we tin't tell them if their battery is replaceable. While 3rd-party companies might sell batteries, I'd recommend finding one from the laptop's company, if you can. Some vendors sell parts online – both HP and Dell accept battery stores, for example. If you can't notice yours online, you can also try calling the company to run into if they sell it.

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Some machines also come with maintenance manuals, and if they practise, be sure to follow it to the letter of the alphabet. Fifty-fifty though you probably don't have a warranty 7 years later, you still don't want to break anything (or hurt yourself). Chances are you're going to demand a couple of screwdrivers to get into your laptop, but it's cheaper and less wasteful than getting a new reckoner.

But if you tin't replace the bombardment, well, you lot had a nice run.

Seven years is a long time. Oscarandmutley also asked if a desktop would be amend suited for them. Just without knowing what they apply the machine for, I'd say that'due south merely the case if they never want to take their figurer with them anywhere.

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