The Joy of Repairing Laptops

Fixing stuff isn’t just good for the environment — it’s great for your spirits

Clive Thompson

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Unscrewing the SSD, as I and my son replace the keyboard on his ASUS laptop. Check out the dust in those fans!

Recently my son’s laptop keyboard reached the end of its life. It’s only two years old, but he’s a regular gamer, so the WASD keys were shot.

At first, we took it to the local Microcenter that we’d bought it from, since we also got their repair plan, and it…

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Clive Thompson

I write 2X a week on tech, science, culture — and how those collide. Writer at NYT mag/Wired; author, “Coders”. @clive@saturation.social clive@clivethompson.net