We got a new laptop because the old one was dying – the final straw was that the power cord had a break in it somewhere, so you had to hold the cord just so or it would not charge.
I went at it this morning with a razor blade and 2 lbs of solder later, it works again! The patch is of course ugly, but it works – now what to do with this computer? I think I might try to install Ubuntu, but um, well, the CD player does not work ;). Of course half the memory slots don’t work, the wireless card gave out years ago, and every once in a while you have to press the power on button repeatedly to get it to turn on, but it has a few month miles to go now!