I've got an Acer Asprire 5553G laptop that I bought refurbished over 10 years ago. It has since developed the following issues:
Currently it just sits in the kitchen for watching youtube/netflix but is very clunky what with the lag, having to use external keyboard and rubbish screen.
My thoughts are the best thing to do is recover the windows 7 (upgraded to 10) product key for use on another system (if possible), trash the HDD but then what do I do with the rest of it? Is it useful to anyone for parts?
I looked into trade in schemes but e.g. Dell stipulated that laptops could only be 6 years old or something like that.
Come to think of it, I've actually got some even older laptops lying around that haven't been booted in many years. Really ought to do something with these.
- Keyboard is knackered, 2 keys missing and a small cluster no longer works after my son spilled a drink on it. Effectively, you have to plug in a USB keyboard to use it
- Screen looks very washed out (doesn't handle direct daylight well at all) and periodically has a solid line down it.
- Battery life is terrible, needs to be plugged in to use for any length of time. Reviews suggest the battery was poor to begin with never mind at 10 years old.
- HDD is slow, often it grinds to a halt with 100% disk utilisation in task manager. Have tried chkdsk etc to no avail
Currently it just sits in the kitchen for watching youtube/netflix but is very clunky what with the lag, having to use external keyboard and rubbish screen.
My thoughts are the best thing to do is recover the windows 7 (upgraded to 10) product key for use on another system (if possible), trash the HDD but then what do I do with the rest of it? Is it useful to anyone for parts?
I looked into trade in schemes but e.g. Dell stipulated that laptops could only be 6 years old or something like that.
Come to think of it, I've actually got some even older laptops lying around that haven't been booted in many years. Really ought to do something with these.