Now I’ve got the print jobs out of the way, It’s time for some computer repairs.
One of my very first clients is back with a laptop that won’t hold it’s charge.
It’s a HP EliteBook 840 that he bought refurbished from Amazon, on my advice, about 4 years ago.
I really like the EliteBooks. So easy to work on, as the back panel just unclips in a few seconds and you have access to pretty much everything.
As I’ve had a lot of problems with after-market batteries in the past, I only supply OEM batteries, which can cost £75-£150+. But as he’s a pensioner, it’s a bit pricey for his budget. So I pointed him to the correct battery on Amazon for just £25, which he’ll bring back next week for me to fit.
The service went easily, as it’s got 16Gb of RAM, an i5 CPU & fast SSD.
A quick virus scan, bunch of Windows updates, clean-up of start-up programs, disk clean-up & optimise the SSD, and it’s ready to collect in about 45mins.
Modern computers, with solid state drives are so cheap to service. Last week, an almost identical machine that only had 4Gb of RAM, a Celeron CPU and a traditional mechanical HDD took me nearly 3hrs to do the same job.