Fix My Laptop at Windor has donated 5 Dell Latitude D610 laptops to be taken to Africa to be donated to an orphange in Pertoria. These orphans and vunerable children have very little in the way of computers so the donation will  be very well received. Through its Director, Irene Heibloem, the laptops will be hand delivered in the week of October 23rd~30th 2009.

When we started Fix My Laptop in early 2006 we had in mind to become a leader in non-warranty laptop repairs. Having been in the industry since the early 1990's we had identified real problems in having laptops repaired promptly and cost effectively. Unable to find a solution for ourselves we decided to become the solution....

 

10 Reasons Not to Own a Netbook and 8 Reasons to Own One.

 

Netbooks are the fastest growing category of laptop sales with some 10 million of them shipped last year and sales increasing in 2009. Yes, they sell well but do they deliver?

by Michael Horowitz  August 19, 2008 6:47 PM PDT

Article taken from CNET website: http://news.cnet.com/8301-13554_3-10020782-33.html

Vista Out - Windows 7 In

With Microsoft finally admitting defeat with Vista and admitting that Windows Vista will never be adopted by contented XP Professional business users, it appears that we can turn our attention to the next Windows client release, Windows 7. It's Windows 7 because presumably it's the 7^th incarnation of Windows.

We have recently added netbook 8.9" LCD screens and 15.6" wxga and 16" wxga LCD's to suit the newest  model laptops. If you have a newer model laptop and you damage your screen we'll have the parts you need.

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10 Reasons to Use

Fix My Laptop.

1. Diagnostic Responsibility. If you buy the parts you assume the responsibility for the diagnosis. Regardless of how good you are, you can't always be right. I spoke today to a repairer who had a Compaq laptop with a "punched in" screen.

 

Laptop LCD Screen Problems and How to Diagnose Them

There are a number of factors that come into play in diagnosing a laptop display problem:

Does the Screen have a displayed Image?

If you have a dv9000 that is suffering lid and hinge problems you are not alone. This is a very common problem, almost 100% of dv9000's we see in the workshop have hinge tear-out on the left hand side. 

Here at Fix My Laptop we have taken a brief look at some of the major trends emerging in relation to laptops over the next couple of years and have categorized them into:

Component trends
components in laptops and the direction that type of hardware is heading.