<Snip> the only way you could do it "economically" is to offer a removal service and offer to take a way old laptops for a small fee and then dismantle them all and stockpile the working parts but then if you get some obscure laptop, you might not have any parts for it, I think thats why its always so expensive because each vendor makes their laptops in a different way and no two part (from different vendors) have the same standard fit like you get in desktops.Ie you couldlnt bodge up a laptop by fitting a DELL DVD writer into a Compaq laptop <Snip> You make a very good point and an interesting business opportunity as I see it would be such a service. As we would not only be talking about broken machines here, in the windows world laptops and desktops get so gunked up so quickly it's only prudent to through them away. Case in point is where I currently work one of our machines (Desktop bog standard Dell) was playing up so was replaced. Before chucking it I wanted to test out smoothwall network guardian it's not going to be an active server protecting the web surfing habits of 50 users! However Laptops are getting closer and closer to being like desktops (interchangeable parts) more an more of the big companies are outsourcing their manufacture of machines, also laptop chipsets are spreading across manufacturers. (Broadcom being a prime example) so what I'm saying is that soon it will be easier and therefore cheaper to repair laptops. Steve
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