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I'm the 95%! Honestly, if something is going to take me more than 10 minutes to do, and the risk of breaking something is higher than none, I'm of the mindset t
by jermaustin1 9y ago
I'm the 95%! Honestly, if something is going to take me more than 10 minutes to do, and the risk of breaking something is higher than none, I'm of the mindset to either pay to have a professional fix it (or break it for free), or rip out the hard drive and buy a new laptop.
All these higher end laptops all come with pretty decent warranties so for a couple hundred bucks you get it either repaired or swapped out. Then again, I'm a tone deaf American with a large amount of disposable income...
- abawany 9y agoI am proudly of the '5%'. Some things I have done include: Thinkpad (some ancient Pentium-133 model) motherboard (30 min), Fujitsu T4020 fan (4 hours), Fujitsu T4200 SSD (2x, 10min max each), various hard drives, HP Pavilion 17 fan (3 hours), Motion M1400 memory and hard drive (converted to a PATA SSD after much research, 30min), and the M.2 SSD on my HP Elite X2. The fan replacements in particular were not fun but it seemed wrong to throw them away for something as basic as a $11 fan (buried in the internals as it was), which is why my current laptop (Elite X2) has no moving parts whatsoever.
- swiley 9y agoSometimes you really don't want to wait for a professional.