I recently received a substantially bigger than usual paycheque, mostly because of some backpay, days that were forgotten, and a special contract. It was around 3x what I'd normally receive. After putting some extra on debts and such, I figured I'd buy myself a new laptop, because I had a lot of extra left, and then some.
Mine was on its last stand: missing keys, dropped some sugary drinks all over the keyboard (half of it didn't work * sigh * ) the fan just didn't want to stop, close to overheating at all times, slow, lagged all the time... On average so far, my laptopts last me ~5 years, which is good
I browsed for a whole day, looking at reviews and trying to find something cheap and my money's worth, but I didn't find anything that I actually liked. I don't wanna drop 800-1000$ on it but if I go under that the laptops don't seem worth it. FML, I'm so picky.
Mmmhh, my computer has around the same memory and hard drive capacity than most computers around my price budget (400-600$). Is there anything I could do to salvage it?
Then I started googling on how to replace a keyboard; huh, seems easy enough! 30$ for a new keyboard? Sold! How to clean up fan; well, that actually was way easier than I thought! 4$ for a can of gas cleaner and 9$ for new thermic paste? Reasonable! New battery? 40$ for a decent quality one, free shipping!
So I dropped a little under a 100$ to clean up my computer. It might actually last me another 5 years, now that I know it's important to clean the fan regularly :| just need to do a factory reset, and it might actually stop being so slow
TL;DR : if you clean up your computer often (especially the fan, which gets quite dirty) you won't need to buy one every couple of years and stop spending money to replace technology so often
June 04, 2017 at 02:02PM
