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by sliken
3514 days ago
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For every phone where I could replace the battery, I did. I talked to friends with the same phones, and they often did as well. Comments along the lines of "Wow, battery life as good as new, I'll keep it for another 6 months". Similar for laptops. Replacing batteries, upgrading ram, and upgrading storage are very common. You really think that if you blow $2 or $3k on a new laptop that somewhere during it's life you might not want a larger SSD or more than 16GB ram? Sure it might have made it a mm or two thicker, definitely a price I'd pay for something that's easier to fix (or have fixed) or upgrade. |
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Don't forget cleaning! Until we get to the point where all components are passively cooled in a sealed container, cleaning a laptop's CPU fan is simply one of those maintenance tasks that will keep a laptop running quiet and cool for years.
And yeah, getting a a bit of extra RAM or the next generation of fast hard disk is a great and cheap way to give a performance boost to an ageing laptop.