This won't mean anything to anybody here really since it is kind of a personal thing, but I am restoring an Acer Aspire 5739G Core2Duo laptop back to health after repossessing it from my nephews, who I had given it to many many years ago as an Xmas present. This laptop was my first proper laptop which had dedicated graphics, in the form of Nvidia 240M chip. I had another terrible laptop before this, but this was my first laptop I could lay on my couch and proper game on. I was very attached to it because of this. Anyway, after I gave it to my nephews they then proceeded to treat it like dog ****. Pulled keys off, scuffed it, split stuff in it etc etc, even pulled out the rubber screw concealing grommets in the bezel for flips sake, I mean what? Why? I was pretty mad about this to be honest. I kind of forgot about it, then found it abandoned in my parents house just recently, and nicked it back. Looks like it was abandoned because whatever they had spilt on it had knackered the keyboard. It must have been put there and forgotten about for at least 7 years.
Anyway, I took this as a sign to embark on a personal mission to restore this laptop to its former glory. New keyboard and a power supply got it working again. Now looking at upgrading the cpu to the maximum the bios can support, as well as new ram, probable SSD swap, and even looking at replacing the screen. Windows 10 has even installed itself on it, since it came with Vista. They must have done this before it was abandoned. There is absolutely no point whatsoever to doing this as it will never be powerful enough to be particularly useful, and I already have a modern gaming laptop, but there is something about this particular laptop which compels me to just have it there and working, if you get me. This is just a bit of a story about a personal quest. And the moral of the story is nostalgia can a very powerful urge, and also never ever give kids anything ever.