On Saturday 24 August 2024 03:36:28 pm Joe wrote: > Not trivial, > laptops don't come apart easily, but actual component failure is going > to be very difficult to diagnose and maybe impossible to fix.
Yup. I have three laptops over there that I was given, waiting for me to do something with them. I'm in no particular hurry. The last laptop I used, left it plugged in all the time and eventually the battery deteriorated, something went wrong and it wouldn't charge up any more. After that I ended up with a "system board error" at which point I gave up on it. I did get 6-7 years of use out of it, amyhow... -- Member of the toughest, meanest, deadliest, most unrelenting -- and ablest -- form of life in this section of space, a critter that can be killed but can't be tamed. --Robert A. Heinlein, "The Puppet Masters" - Information is more dangerous than cannon to a society ruled by lies. --James M Dakin