Glad PC's are a dieing breed
Gotta love the popularity of cell phones and laptops! My laptop screen died. So I stopped at a thrift store and low and behold I found a real nice monitor for 5 bucks! Today I went to a moving s...
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Good cheap fix for your laptop, I would say.
DH is about to tear into his. His screen is going bad. He will order a screen off the 'net, then lookup the Youtube video on how to change it. Somewhere someone has already done it and filmed it. A screen is $40 normally.
Last year my Mom's laptop went dead, so he put new ram and motherboard and a CPU in it and it's good as new. Cost? $60.
A few years ago, the screen on my Gateway went out. He replaced that and the inverter and updated the ram at the same time. Cost? $80.
I'm glad he's so handy. He has no background in computers, but is pretty much a jack of all trades. Just follows the videos.
We really can't carry around extra monitors or anything like that since we fulltime. Laptops aren't as "throwaway" as they appear.
Dale
DH is about to tear into his. His screen is going bad. He will order a screen off the 'net, then lookup the Youtube video on how to change it. Somewhere someone has already done it and filmed it. A screen is $40 normally.
Last year my Mom's laptop went dead, so he put new ram and motherboard and a CPU in it and it's good as new. Cost? $60.
A few years ago, the screen on my Gateway went out. He replaced that and the inverter and updated the ram at the same time. Cost? $80.
I'm glad he's so handy. He has no background in computers, but is pretty much a jack of all trades. Just follows the videos.
We really can't carry around extra monitors or anything like that since we fulltime. Laptops aren't as "throwaway" as they appear.
Dale
