The other day I went to the Apple Store to pick up my computer and I felt like a celebrity. The person assigned to help me ran over and asked enthusiastically if I was Lily Newman. I nodded and immediately assumed that he recognised my name from Gizmodo and was about to tell me how quippy and brilliant I am. Because that totally happens to me all the time. Instead he produced my laptop, grinned at me, and said, “This laptop had so much wrong with it.”
“It’s ridiculous!” Soooo, yeah. My computer had been randomly freezing for a while, but I didn’t know it was on the verge of becoming an incredibly expensive pile of garbage.
No matter how reliable a computer is it’s bound to have a problem sometime. There are lots of things that can cause component breakdowns from liquids and heat, to dust or plain old over-clocking. What’s the most major repair a computer of yours has ever needed? Pick it apart below.