Sometimes life gives you lemons
Jan. 2nd, 2018 06:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
thewayneand I got a passle of 'em today.
Remember the laptop with the smashed keys that I wrote about a month ago? Well, it looks like that may be going to be my primary laptop. It's my wife's old one. My laptop is the same model year and needed the MagSafe power port replaced, or so I thought. I took it in to a computer repair guy today at lunch and went to pick it up after work, and it turnsout it wasn't the port. It was the power regulator circuit. On the motherboard. Which would require a motherboard replacement. For a 2011 laptop.
*sigh*
Or a simple FIRK DING BLAST!
The problem is that my wife's new laptop is having video problems, so I can't put the hard drive from my computer in to this one as she needs the software to control the telescope in case the other computer has to be sent out. The big question is how difficult it would be to transplant the motherboard from this laptop in to my case. Her case has weak hinges for the laptop lid and needs the five keys repaired, mine has strong hinges and a good keyboard. The question is are there any physical differences. They're both 2011 model year MacBook Pro's, but mine is an Early 2011 and hers is a Late 2011, I don't know if that would make a difference: gotta dig in to iFixIt and maybe ask for some advice on their forums.
Remember the laptop with the smashed keys that I wrote about a month ago? Well, it looks like that may be going to be my primary laptop. It's my wife's old one. My laptop is the same model year and needed the MagSafe power port replaced, or so I thought. I took it in to a computer repair guy today at lunch and went to pick it up after work, and it turnsout it wasn't the port. It was the power regulator circuit. On the motherboard. Which would require a motherboard replacement. For a 2011 laptop.
*sigh*
Or a simple FIRK DING BLAST!
The problem is that my wife's new laptop is having video problems, so I can't put the hard drive from my computer in to this one as she needs the software to control the telescope in case the other computer has to be sent out. The big question is how difficult it would be to transplant the motherboard from this laptop in to my case. Her case has weak hinges for the laptop lid and needs the five keys repaired, mine has strong hinges and a good keyboard. The question is are there any physical differences. They're both 2011 model year MacBook Pro's, but mine is an Early 2011 and hers is a Late 2011, I don't know if that would make a difference: gotta dig in to iFixIt and maybe ask for some advice on their forums.
