Repair Parts

 

Extract from Scott Mueller's "Upgrading and Repairing Laptops" Book Oct 2004, First Print Oct 2003 QUE

 

Laptops--call them notebooks, portable computers, or whatever else you like--are tightly engineered items. It's hard to get all the required components to obey stringent performance and power-management requirements, and still fit into a small case. The job usually requires a custom motherboard and other specialized components, and so the laptop owner who wants to upgrade his or her machine faces a much more difficult task than the owner of a desktop machine…

Impact Computers categorizes the parts by notebook manufacturer.