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What is a laptop?

Your laptop typically consists of many high precision components. First of all, you have a systemboard, which is also known as mainboard or motherboard. On that main board you have your CPU. Also on the motherboard you have some memory that is referred to as RAM.  On all but ultralight or ultraportable laptops you also have an optical drive such as a CD-ROM, CD-RW, DVD-ROM, or DVD-RW. Finally you have the keyboard and an integrated display.

Opening a laptop is very much like solving a puzzle where one needs to take apart a box that is held together by unknown forces. Fortunately, for HDD and RAM replacement, the procedure is typically simple. To access the rest of the system you will need to literally solve a puzzle and unlatch hidden latches, unscrew screws in the correct order, and so forth, hopefully with the aid of a service manual.

User serviceable parts

On a typical laptop, you will have easy access to replacing the hard disk drive, which is also known as HDD or harddrive. The second commonly accessible part is laptop RAM memory. Keyboard can also be replaced on most laptops, but it’s easier to do so on some and ridiculously difficult on a few models. (more…)