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From: BillW50 on 7 Feb 2010 14:55
In news:hkladi$geb$1(a)news.eternal-september.org,
~misfit~ typed on Sun, 7 Feb 2010 16:01:01 +1300:
> After working on ThinkPads for the last couple of years I've been
> seriously spoilt. I can change most ThinkPad's CPU in a few minutes,
> half an hour at most.

The Gateway laptops in the M and MX series are like this. As if you know
how one comes apart, you know how to take virtually all of them apart.
And it only takes 10 minutes to completely disassemble the whole thing
in pieces. And there is a trap door to replace the CPU and to clean the
fan and the air ducts.

This was true for the years that Windows XP was installed for so many
years. I haven't worked on any that came with Vista or Windows 7 yet. So
I don't know if they are the same or not.

So ThinkPads were the same way, eh?

> The other day I decided to upgrade the CPU in an older Compaq laptop
> I have that I don't really know what to do with. It doesn't have wifi
> and the battery's dead so it's not worth much to sell, in fact I'd
> get more for the parts than the laptop. I hate that. How can a
> working, reliable laptop with a genuine Win XP Pro COA not be worth
> more than the sum of half of it's parts? Crazy.

Virtually everything is worth more in parts than it is for the whole
thing. Nothing new there. Sad I know, but not much you can do about it.

--
Bill
Asus EEE PC 702G8 ~ 2GB RAM ~ 16GB-SDHC
Windows XP SP2


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