Hi everybody today we are going to talk about why laptops are so tough to repair. As you know, laptops are a great convenience and they make it easy to take your work with you wherever you go. This does come at a price. Laptops are great for convenience but if something goes wrong, they are difficult and expensive to repair.

Because laptop computers are so small, all the components have to be placed in a very small compact area. This makes getting to any of the components very difficult at best. For example, if you are trying to replace the cooling fan, you have to remove a number of components including the screen and keyboard just to gain access to it. This is not for the faint of heart. In addition, most laptop parts are proprietary and you have to pay the company’s price for the part, which is usually very high.

The only parts that are easily replaced on a laptop are confined to the hard drive and the ram. Chips. These components can also be upgraded quite easily as well.

Another reason that many laptops fail prematurely is heat. Since laptop computers have their parts so clustered together, the amount of heat that they generate is quite intense. This heat can degrade the internal components of your system and lead to things like a motherboard failure. If this occurs, it is almost always less expensive to buy a new computer as opposed to having the board replaced. Because of the complexity of the laptop, most of your cost will be labor.

In some cases if your system is newer, you might want to check and see if your system is under warranty or not. The manufacturers warranty will only cover hardware issues and not software issues. If you still have a warranty and your motherboard fries, you will be in luck! All you have to do is send your machine back to the factory and they will replace it. Please remember that is all likelihood, they will reformat your system before it is shipped back to you so always be sure you have a good backup in place.

 

Author:  Joe Zelenak, Staff Writer