[viraptor]

Some thoughts:

- If you replace it with other laptop, people can find out. Serial numbers can be compared either manually, or by wherever software is pre-installed by school.

- Likely you cannot get the exact same laptop as was given to you. Even models with the same name can come with different configurations causing issues in the future.

- If you can buy a replacement laptop, (since you have somewhere to transfer the data to) why don't you just say this to school and remove parents from this exchange?

- Being secretive about it will likely cause more issues than just saying what happened.

- Schools may have insurance or deals covering all such cases, so it may not cost them anything. Consider how many laptops they have and how many may get accidentally broken every year.

[blakenessjiggy]

You're right, I can't believe I didn't think of this. I can get a bit out of hand but thanks this really helped.