re: #181 Chrysicat

I’ve never heard of a hard-drive being glued in place rather than being screwed in via an enclosure, and I’d suspect that it wouldn’t be possible because laptop-size drives invariably have their circuit board exposed on their underside. I’ve heard of enclosures that require proprietary screws, sure (OHAI, ASUS! Wanna know why I went HP Omen for my new machine?), but William isn’t suggesting switching motherboard components or anything like that, just a literal brain transplant. And considering I know people whose computers’ cases contain data drives that once included a Win95 portion, I suspect that’s a thing that really is done.

I just have had awful experiences with Dell. You are likely right about the hard-drive. I just remember taking my last Dell, which was incredibly forward-enabled when it was built, and having the guy look inside and say, “Yeah, sorry, can’t upgrade the power supply cause it won’t fit. Can’t upgrade the motherboard because it’s not upgradeable. Can’t do pretty much anything.” And that was the desktop tower. As I recall, the laptop had the graphics integrated into the motherboard, so if the graphics went on the fritz, you were just basically screwed.