Sandler Corey. Upgrading & Fixing Laptops For Dummies

Wiley Publishing, 2006. — 362 p.: ill. — ISBN-13: 978-0-7645-8959-1, ISBN-10: 0-7645-8959-8.First of all, this book sees the world through the eyes of a laptop owner. Laptops can do everything that a desktop PC can do, and in much the same way, but are built very differently.
The important difference is the construction. This book explores all sorts of ways to replace or upgrade components that slide into, connect to, or attach onto a modern laptop. You open hatches and compartments, too. But you will not open the sealed box that encases the motherboard and holds in place the LCD screen; that’s not a job for Dummies...or even for most experts. It’s too complex, too tight a working space, and usually not an economically sensible
thing to do.
The goal of the author is to give you news you can use, information that will help you fix problems, replace parts, and add external upgrades and workarounds. Laptop computers are not quite like the one-horse cart that Oliver Wendell Holmes memorialized in poetry; that wonderful one-hoss shay, built in such a logical way, ran 100 years to a day before all the pieces fell apart at the same time. Different components have differing life expectancies.Contents at a Glance:
Putting a Computer in Your Lap.
Explaining What Could Possibly Go Wrong.
Laying Hands on the Major Parts.
Failing to Communicate.
The Software Side of Life.
The Part of Tens.