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HOW TO EXTEND THE LIFE OF A LAPTOP - how to extend the life and performance of your laptop

Despite the fact that the laptop as a portable device was designed with a possible portability in mind and many models tolerate transportation quite well, there are factors that can cause damage to the device. Among them, you can list the following: a sharp temperature drop, liquid ingress, excessive vibration, thunderstorm, unqualified repair or modernization. Below we will consider each of them separately.

So, sharp temperature drop... This is the most common and, at the same time, far from the most obvious cause of device breakdown. A minute ago, you were reading a news site in a warm kitchen, and now you are carrying it down the cold street to work in your bag (especially important for winter). We come to work, plug the laptop into the network and begin to actively use it. It would seem that nothing non-standard is written here, for me this can become fatal for the device. The reason is the change in temperature from warm to cold and vice versa. Why is this situation dangerous? As you know from the school physics course, in such cases, condensation forms, and because of it, its main components can fail. What to do? Give it at least 20 minutes to dry out and adjust to the new temperature.

Liquid ingress... If a small amount of liquid gets on the keyboard, you can try to dry the device by turning it upside down. Under no circumstances should a hairdryer be used. With prolonged drying with a hairdryer, the keys will simply melt. If there was a lot of liquid, it got on the motherboard, and in 90% of cases this leads to the death of the device. If you do not have sufficient qualifications to carry out repair work, immediately take it to the service center. There they will disassemble it, dry individual parts, etc. If the motherboard is damaged, repairing it will cost a pretty penny, so buying a new laptop is often the most reasonable option.

The current state of highways poses a new challenge for laptop owners - excessive vibration... The most sensitive element of a laptop to this type of impact is the hard drive. With prolonged exposure to vibration, it can literally crumble. In this case, it will be necessary not only to buy a new drive, but also, most likely, to recover data from a broken one. And this is not cheap now. During manual transportation, the laptop is exposed to vibration to a lesser extent, so you need to immediately purchase a special bag to minimize the impact of this factor. If you plan to constantly carry it with you, an excellent solution is to equip your laptop with an SSD-drive. No vibration is scary to him.

The next reason for the frequent failure of laptops is storm... True, with laptops everything is much easier than with stationary computers. They can simply be disconnected from the mains and run on the battery until the storm is over. If there is an uninterruptible power supply or a good stabilizer, you can also power it through it. It is also worth checking the shielding of the network cable, because of it, during a thunderstorm, a solid section of the motherboard can burn out.

The Internet is now replete with notes of various Kulibins, who make a laptop almost an airplane with a slight movement of the hand. Yes, with the appropriate skills and experience, you can upgrade a laptop, re-solder its various components, make repairs, but if you are not confident in your abilities, never do this. It is much easier, faster and, most importantly, cheaper to use the services of a service center.Only this ensures that after the intervention, your laptop does not turn into a heap of unnecessary scrap metal.

We hope that these recommendations will save you a lot of money and extend the life of your laptop.

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