How to get a new laptop ...... from the old one for 50$

Continuing on my last post on fixing my old laptop.

I was buying a laptop for a HP pavillion laptop for my friend. I was looking forward to buy myself a laptop once I ordered his.

I found that the industry is moving towards only a two screen resolutions 1366x768 and 1980x1080.
I started looking for a laptop that matched my needs.


To my surprise I found that a laptop that matched my current 3 year old laptop configuration was selling on dell for $600+ taxes + 50 dollars recycling fee in California. That was turning out to $720.

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Moreover I was surprised at the screen resolutions they offered, my old dell laptop has resolution of 1440x900 which seems almost perfect 1600xHHHH would be ideal for me. I could not find a laptop that would actually fit my needs


I was using the new hp laptop i just ordred for my friend and the resolution seemed too low at first. 1080p seemed to high on my external monitor, so no hope on a 15 inch laptop screen.

I decided then to see what I could do with my laptop.

If you have read my post many of you might know I have been doing.

Here are a lit of things I needed to make myself happy.

• New system fan
• New battery as my 3 year old battery couldn't keep my laptop running for more than 10 seconds
• A new keyboard as my keyboard was not really soft after 3 years.

I started a search on by ebay desktop application.
you can get it here and I recommend it for all frequent ebay users.

http://desktop.ebay.com/


Anyway here were the three things I found on ebay ....













Total cost of the operation 10 +38 + 5 = 53 dollars.

And also got a 9 cell battery instead of the current 6 cell.


I would encourage every one to look at fixing their old laptop before investing heavily into a new one.

Remember one important information... Almost anything on the laptop can be replaced and even upgraded.