Fixing office laptops part 1 (Successful)

Laptops are actually very daunting, it is not as easy to upgrade as we needed due to the model parts that sometimes are discontinued, because they want us to get a new one, or else, the parts will cost a bomb if acquired from the brand seller itself.

old memory that couldn't handle more advanced memory hungry applications.

One of my colleagues actually had a similar problem. Though his laptop is considered quite recent, bought during lockdown, which was around 5 years, but due to the brand's insistent to purchase new equipments, the repairs become much higher with the reason of "lack of supply, and need to source from world wide branches"

To us, of course this sounds super ridiculous, and since the laptop's warranty has expired and unable to renew, I started out to shop for parts, where I too also needed to upgrade my very own 9 year old laptop.

Passing by shops that are vacant in a losing vibrant mall

It wasn't easy as many retail stores actually sells a lot more expensive because they factor in the shop rental into the costing, so after checking a few places, it was a better decision to purchase from the very same shop's online store to benefit the online store platform's ongoing promotions.

Getting the mail within 3 hours!

Getting the memory upgraded immediately

Adding in extended SATA hardisk for more spaces

And with that, the cost of driving out to source parts including petrol (gas) and parking fees were eliminated; and even with delivery fee included it was more affordable ( because it is local ) and transportation wear and tear is avoided.

Usual daily jam while heading to work

Staying in the capital city of a development country, the roads aren't the most accessible yet, and more importantly, time was saved and I could still resume other work while waiting for the parts to arrive.

That's a learning process for me: timed management while juggling multiple tasks.

The good thing about my colleague's laptop upgrade is that there is no need for data migration, as laptops are way more sophisticated than pc. Without proper dockers for one to one offline cloning, it doesn't work well.

It was a real nightmare to tackle system cloning, and from there, I learned a lot of painful lessons.

That being said, the lesson issue needs to go to another post because that's too long and too painful to share in one post.

Let's leave the success story here first.

Overall, with an extended hardisk and a new swap RAM , my colleague is currently a "happy customer" 😊

And I got an additional "tip" from him through a newly opened boba tea shop. The tea was nice, but the boba was a little too hard to chew compared to other leading brands out there.

So that's it, juggling work, sourcing from shop to shop close by did earn me a nice step achievement.

A good day's work done 👍🏻
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Moving Around Office, Shopping, Walking