lostinlodos wrote:
I've yet to find anything below midgrade in a laptop.
The real question is what is your time worth. The more you do it the faster and easier it gets.
5 years ago i would take down a laptop in about an hour. Today they take less than 10 minutes.
What you often find is a ain board. 1-4 ram cards. A wifi adapter or network /modem card.
On higher end models you may have a separate video card and a replaceable cpu board.
Then you have the drives and screen.
The first thing to do is look up the value of the laptop. Even damaged or totally dead they're probably worth more as a whole unit.
If you break it down look up the part numbers
.working drives and components are often sought after.
Proprietary parts will be worth more than easily exchangeable ones.
eBay should always be your first choice for current values. After searching use the refine option to see sold items only for real sales value.
The hard drive exchange is another option for working parts.
Then Finally Boardsort buys everything in a laptop.
Exactly what he said. What is your time worth. Look at how much you are going to be getting, and how much time/shippnig it will take to get that. Are you worth a penny an hour or 300 bucks an hour? all depends on how much you value your time really. Wasting 3 hours on a laptop for 10 bucks is 3 bucks an hour.